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MR. BLASIER: Can you calculate the area of a circle with a five-millimeter diameter?
MR. MARTZ: I mean I could. I don't--math--I don't--I don't know right now what it is.
MR. BLASIER: Well, what is the formula for the area of a circle?
MR. MARTZ: Pi r squared.
MR. BLASIER: What is pi?
MR. MARTZ: Boy, you are really testing me. 2.12, 2.17.
THE COURT: How about 3.12.14.
MR. BLASIER: Isn't pi kind of essential to being a scientist knowing what it is?
MR. MARTZ: I haven't used pi since I guess I was in high school.
MR. BLASIER: Let's try 3.12.
MR. MARTZ: Is that what it is? There is an easier way to do--
MR. BLASIER: Let's try 3.14. And what is the radius?
MR. MARTZ: It would be half the diameter, 2.5.
MR. BLASIER: 2.5 squared, right?
MR. MARTZ: Right.
MR. BLASIER: Your Honor, may we borrow a calculator?
(Brief pause.)
MR. BLASIER: Can you use calculator?
MR. MARTZ: Yes, I think.
MR. BLASIER: Tell me what pi times 2.5 squared is?
MR. MARTZ: 19.
MR. BLASIER: Do you want to write down 19?
MR. MARTZ: (Witness complies.)
MR. BLASIER: Square millimeters, right?
MR. MARTZ: (No audible response.)
MR. BLASIER: The area. What is one/tenth of that?
MR. MARTZ: 1.9.
MR. BLASIER: You miscalculated by a factor of two, the size, the minimum size of a swatch you needed to detect EDTA, didn't you?
MR. MARTZ: I don't know that I did or not. I calculated a little differently. I didn't use this.
MR. BLASIER: Well, does the area change by the different method of calculation?
MR. MARTZ: Well, this is all estimations based on my eyeball. I didn't use any scientific math to determine it. What I did was I took the circle and I divided it in half and then I divided it in half again and I just cut out a piece and that is how I did it.
Zerschmetterling
Date of registration: Aug 31st 2003
Location: Hannover
Occupation: Informatikstudent (d'uh)
MR. BLASIER: What is pi?
MR. MARTZ: Boy, you are really testing me. 2.12, 2.17.
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Man findet immer dort besonders viel Chaos, wo man nach Ordnung sucht. Das Chaos besiegt die Ordnung, weil es besser organisiert ist.
Grooooßartig! Die Kinder habens echt gut.Sehr cool: Per Ballon ins All
So stellen sich Bild-Leser den heutigen Weltmännertag vor:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2010/11/03/…en__news__.html (Video und Text)
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2) Constraint-Modelle.
Eine Autovermietung hat 2 Filiale: eine in Busenhausen (Landkreis Siegen) und eine in Poppendorf
(Mecklenburg). Am Monatsende stehen 20% der Autos aus Poppendorf in Busenhausen. Außerdem
bleiben 75% der Autos aus Busenhausen weiterhin in dieser Filiale.
a) Modellieren Sie das obige Szenario als Constraint-Modell zur Berechnung der Anzahl der Autos
am Monatsende.
b) Die Firma hat insgesamt 90 Autos. Interessanterweise hat hat sich die Anzahl der Autos in
Poppendorf als auch in Busenhausen am Monatsende nicht geändert. Wie viele Autos waren am
Monatsanfang jeweils in Poppendorf und Busenhausen.
Zerschmetterling
Date of registration: Aug 31st 2003
Location: Hannover
Occupation: Informatikstudent (d'uh)