There are some interesting formulas given for determining the velocity of an object at a given point on its orbit, but it's unclear what units are required. The answers I'm getting aren't adding up to anything that makes any sense or agrees with what's in the literature.
Could you clarify this, pleasse? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.209.99.84 ( talk) 01:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
where:
Traditionally, the hemoglobin disorder that causes misshapen red blood cells was known as " sickle-cell anemia"; now, however, I'm seeing the more general " sickle-cell disease" used, especially in medical journals and such sources as my IB Biology II book.
Is "disease" preferable to "anemia"? My guess is that the naming standards changed because anemia is not the only sympton, but I could be wrong.
Google suggests "anemia" is more common (in all Web results and news results), but there are factors that lean towards the use of "disease," such as the name of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and the results of a search of the New England Journal of Medicine website (190 for "disease," 156 for "anemia," and 14 for "anemia").
A search of only university sites yields 399,000 hits for "disease" and 560,000 for "anemia"; the same search for only government sites yields 88,800 and 115,000 hits, respectively. Switching to "disease" would eliminate some thorny American/British spelling issues ("anemia"/"anaemia"). Any advice as far as what our article name should be? Neutrality talk 04:41, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
It doesn't matter! It's all the same condition. Sickle cell anemia was the original name. Some people prefer SCD because the anemia is often not the major problem for people and SCD reflects the multi-organ nature of the condition. Current American textbooks and medical journal articles tend to prefer SCD. alteripse 09:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
did the earth really move off its axis? if so how far?and last question,did it cause a difference in the distance from the earth to the moon? (anon)
To whomever may be intelligent enough to answer this question (if it is answerable), I offer this addendum: How can a planet (or ball or any other spinning object) move off an axis? Doesn't whatever imaginary diameter it is currently spinning around just become its new axis? Garrett Albright 11:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
AA Batteries typically offer 1.5 V. However, NiMH AA batteries offer only 1.2 V. My questions are:
-- Lizard Wizard 00:35, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Prove that the number of people who have shaken hands an odd number of times is an even number. --anonym
Where H=handshakes, P=people, (p-1) because out of p people I do not shake hands with myself. There are p*(p-1) encounters, and I divide by 2 because John and Mary shake hands once.
What do you think? Am I wrong? Do you proceed with a different thread of reasoning and would you like explain in a less verbal fashion? --anonym.
I get confused starting with "On the other hand, it is the sum over all people of the number of times each person has shaken hands. What can you say about the number of odd terms in a sum whose result is even ?" Can someone symbolically explain this part?--anonym
If then what does it equal?
>Suppose there are two people. Then each person shakes hands once.
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1
Now another guy walks into the room. He shakes hands with the two people already there (two handshakes for him), and each of the people already there adds a handshake to his collection (two total for them):
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1 3 2
Now another guy walks into the room. He shakes hands with the three people already there (three handshakes for him), and each of the people already there adds a handshake to his collection (three total for them):
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1 3 2 4 3
If you continue this for a while, you'll see that the number of handshakes per person is odd only when the number of people is even.
> 2H=N*(N-1)
Odd handshakes-->even people, e.g., 45 handshakes-->10 people.
--even people ---does not imply--> odd handshakes because, for example, 24 people shake hands 276 times.
But the basic equation is (handshakes)*2=(people)*(people-1).
-anonym - learning that I was initially right.
I think I got it right; however, if I still do not understand another aspect of the problem, then let me know. --anonym
Find a simple formula for where is the kth Fibonacci number. --anonym
is
In the case of the picture, we have
Thank you.--anonym
Find the product . --anonym
equal?--anonym
>
1 - 1/4 = (1 - 1/2)(1 + 1/2) = 1/2 x 3/2
1 - 1/9 = (1 - 1/3)(1 + 1/3) = 2/3 x 4/3
1 - 1/16 = (1 - 1/4)(1 + 1/4) = 3/4 x 5/4
...........................................
1 -1/n^2 = (1 - 1/n)(1 + 1/n) = (n-1)/n x (n+1)/n
If we multiply these all together we get
1/2 x 3/2 x 2/3 x 4/3 x 3/4 x 5/4 x .... x (n-1)/n x (n+1)/n
All terms cancel except very first and very last giving the result
1/2 x (n+1)/n
If n -> infinity (n+1)/n -> 1 so the product -> 1/2
--Anonym with Dr. Math's help.
I've noticed a few biographical articles that had the person's blood type listed. Of those I've seen, all of them concerned someone who was from China or Taiwan. Is this some sort of cultural thing over there? Or is it maybe just coincidence that I ran into the articles that someone pulled info from the same source books or magazines that happen to list this sort of info? Dismas 09:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
The closest similar idiocy in the US was the Eat Right for Your Bloodtype book by Peter Adamo, which read as if it were describing how to feed different species of pets (e.g., herbivores vs carnivores) all based on this single inheritable cell surface protein! alteripse 10:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I am stuck on this Sudoku problem and would like some help with it. Ideally, the solution and perhaps an analysis of where I went wrong :-) I don't know where this particular puzzle came from since I found it lying around in the office.
Here's the puzzle
4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | |||||
5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||
3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |||||
6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | |||||
9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
3 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |||||
2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | |||||
6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
I have:
4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | X | 3 | 1 | |
5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
6 | X | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |||
6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | X | X | 4 | ||
9 | X | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
3 | 7 | 9 | X | 6 | 5 | 8 | ||
2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | |||
6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||||
1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
In particular, something seems incorrect in the middle, but if I backtrack, I find a contradiction! Any tips would be appreciated. -- HappyCamper 04:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
This puzzle is interesting because (1) the layout is not symmetric and (2) the initial position has an unusually large number of filled-in cells: in newspapers, puzzles typically have 20–30 filled-in cells in the initial grid. This has 36. So I suspect the puzzle has been generated by computer, and rather naïvely too. Gdr 13:05:53, 2005-08-22 (UTC)
what term is used to refer to the process of writing data to a disk?
Can you explain to a layperson how an inductor differs from a resister? Don't they both lower the flow of electric charge, and thus current? If you can include an anology or picture, it would be excellent; however,I will appreciate any comment. --anonym
An inductor tries to keep current flowing if it's already flowing, and resists its flow if it's not already flowing. A resistor resists in either situation. Michael Hardy 22:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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Typesetting tip:
This forum is not limited to plain ASCII. Michael Hardy 22:15, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
In addition, the total number of squares in a 6×6 grid is .
--anonym
What are the names of all the deserts in Washington State. The one in particularly I would like to know is the one that is on the east side of Washington and runs from the Canada/Washington border through Oregon and into California.
Hmm. I live in said desert, and I have no idea. I don't think it has a name. -- Matt Yeager 00:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
What are at least four planetary attributes that determine atmospheric composition and behavior of a planet?
Et cetera...
Does bread rot or spoil? Or is there another term applied for bread? --anonym
I am 27 years old. Two years ago I had my 3rd child. Every delivery I have been though I have had natural birth. During these births I have torn or been cut bewteen the vagina and anus. Well I am now noticing that were the doctors have sown me up is begining to tear and there is some swelling and tissue that is extruding out. I have also had my tubs tied if maybe that maks a differance. I am lost for words and scared to go to the doctor. Please if you can give me some insite it will be greatful. Thanks anon
How long do septic tanks (systems) last? We are in the process of buying a 20 year old home with the existing septic tank, what questions or concerns should I have? 67.184.249.226 ( talk · contribs)
The south asian subcontinentis separated from the rest of asia by the?
A. Himalayas and the Hindu Kush
B. Nile Valley
C. Ganges
D. Arabian peninsula
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hydnjo
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Why do I feel like saying Go little sparrow, and use this idea to help you find food. And then little sparrow, you will not only not go hungry but you will pass this on to your offspring, and they also will not go hungry. hydnjo talk 02:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
what network is northern exposure now on being hallmark doesn't have it on anymore? thank you
I want to know what the word or code is to make an npc move or attack.
jtl-- 24.255.95.187 00:44, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Can someone tell me the code to make an npc attack and fight in a multiplayer game?
shortyjtl-- 24.255.95.187 23:07, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
If I invest in monthly ordinary annuities, do I have set aside a fixed amount of my income to pay for the annuity every month? Or do I receive a fixed monthly amount? --anonym
Do banks or other financial institutions offer annuities in perpetuity to their customers? --anonym
There are financial instruments that pay out in perpetuity. For example I inherited War Bonds from a relative, who bought them for a one-off payment. They could not be cashed in but would pay out an annual sum. Since they were bought in the war their annual payment would now be a couple of pennies, and I have no idea what happened to them. DJ Clayworth 18:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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I understand that inside any sphere you can place a regular tetrahedron which touches the surface of the sphere at each of its four vertices. Now, if that sphere is the planet earth, I'd like to think there's a way (a formula, a spreadsheet, a simple piece of software) to calculate the latitude and longitude of each of the four points of the (regular) tetrahedron. My A-level maths just isn't up to the job. Of course, because there are an infinite number of different ways to position a tetrahedron inside a sphere I would need to input a starting point, e.g. the latitude and longitude of one of the vertices (and one other parameter, probably an angle?), and the formula/spreadsheet/program would provide the lat and long of the other three points.
Now, my questions are: Has anyone out there done this already? Can any wikipedia readers/contributors do this for me? If not, can anyone suggest anyone they know who would be knowledgeable enough and kind enough to help me out? Thanks a million ... Nick
How can one test the randomness of a set of numbers? --anon 19:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
This may be a pretty good question if it is made precise. As it is, it's too vague to know what you mean. Michael Hardy 22:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
How can I measure the distance where I'm standing from an open field such as a beach to the horizon
4 Your coverage of Vespasian does not include the fact that his family, and himself, were Mule breeders! The fact that his father was a "equestrian," does not mention "Mules."
What in the world is it? It looks very similar to a fly to me, but it's only 20-30 times bigger..
Also, I would like to preserve it. If i keep it in a peanut butter jar, will it stay in good condition? What about if I put it in acrylic resin?
-- Phroziac ( talk) 16:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Is a pumpkin a starch?And is any squash a starch or carbohydrate?
A few stand-up comedians have commented on the real-world phenomenon of people who have eaten exotic (to a Westerner's palate) animals reporting that the animal tastes "like chicken".
What I'm wondering is whether any chemical analyses have been done of different meats that shows that the cooked flesh of various animals is near-identical and would account for the similarity in taste. -- bodnotbod 01:09, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
I've recently been reading Harold McGee's book "McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture" (he has written other similar titles). Apparently the muscle fibres of meat are fairly similar across species but the real difference lies in the fat (which being a storage organ, stores any fat-soluble molecules that the animals may ingest) - apparently lamb/sheep meat has a lot of thymol in it. Also the gut bacteria and their breakdown products will differ among different species and that will contribute to the taste as well. It's a fascinating book! Jo Brodie, 16:42 GMT or BST - I can never remember ;-), Aug 30, 2005
can beetroot leaves be eaten? duncan
I have an unusual condition which earned me much envy over a summer spent on the Chesapeake Bay and in the Maine woods: I am almost immune to mosquito bites. When I am bitten all traces of the bite disappear within fifteen minutes (sometimes literally right before my eyes), while everyone else I know retains an itchy welt for days on end. Does anyone know why this might be? (Sad to say, I lack a similar immunity to the bites of horseflies and black flies and the stings of jellyfish.)
--edward
As with other immunological reactions, "naturally acquired desensitization to mosquito bites occurs during long-term exposure." [2] Gdr 12:36:32, 2005-08-25 (UTC)
If Moon has a far side, is there an earth equivalent? That is, when standing on moon, will one always only see, say, the Western Hemisphere? -- Menchi 20:50, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
In HTML, you can mark text as being in English with either <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">, or with <div lang="en">. How do you mark text as being in quenya and other fictional languages? Ojw 16:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm teaching my daughter and neice HTML. The only thing is I don't know that much myself, i feel as if I am only one step ahead of them. Anyway I don't want to teach bad habits, and I don't want them to have to unlearn later, stuff I taught wrongly in the first place. So I'm thinking use tags for structure rather than display, concentrate on content over style, XHTML,and CSS. Does anyone have any advice for me? The girls are 13 and 12. Can anyone recommend any good tutorials on the web that they can work through? We have an idea for content, we thought a kids version of the not pr0n game. We'll need javascript for the level passwords, and i don't know any javascript so a kids tutorial on how to do that would also be useful. TIA Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 00:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I hope this is the right category (biology/etymology). I need help identifying a burrowing insect; I don't have a picture but I do have a description. For a long time I thought they were millipedes -- but a recent Google Image Search for "millipede" indicates that millipedes are nowhere near as tiny as the things I'm talking about. Nor are they centipedes. These are very small, but they do have tons of legs and an elongated body. I usually see them in clusters, rarely alone, and they have a urine-like odor to them (quite a strong urine-like odor if you get a whole handful of these critters, too). Body usually brown, with shiny yellow or dark-orange legs. They seem to shrivel up and dehydrate if left in the sun for more than 8-10 minutes. Here in California but I think I remember seeing them in the northern part of North Carolina as well, so I don't think they're too specific to any particular region in the United States. -- 69.234.223.139 04:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I want to know how one decides what should be the doping impurity for a particular kind of semi-conductor?
Hello, I would like to know the difference between 4G and WiMAX. Is it the same thing or is the WiMAX a smaller part of 4G?
Thank you,--Rafik 10:15 26/08/2005 Geneva
I will highly appreciate any word, analogy, picture, diagram, or explanation that will enable me to understand this topic.
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Is a photon invisible until it reacts with mater? Are all photons in EM spectrum invisible? Thank you .... Thomas
Just today I've developed soreness and small swellings in both armpits. I thought it was just an unpleasant spot (or pimple), but it's rare for me to get spots, rarer for me to get one under the armpit, and unprecedented to get such under both on the same day and they're quite sensitive/sore.
I seem to remember that this is a symptom of the bubonic plague, however I am sensible enough to realise this is an unlikely cause.
Is something up with my lymphatic system?
Note: I realise WP isn't a subsitute for proper medical advice, and if it persists I'll go into the doctor's on Monday... in the meantime I'm interested in theories. I'm going to regret this deicision if someone scares me, obviously, but hey-ho... -- bodnotbod 23:42, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
Two cards are chosen in order from a deck. In how many ways can this be done if (a) the first card must be a spade and the second must be a heart? (b) both cards must be a spade? --anonym
Think about it. How many cards are ther in a deck? How many of them are spades? What's the change that the first card is a spade? Right now how many cards are left (after you just removed one)? How many of these are hearts? What's the chance that the second one is a heart? Now you've got two probabilities, what's the change of the first one and the second one both happening? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 01:29, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Am I right?
--anonym.
Yes you are I misread the question. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 02:15, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Two questions about Intelligent design:
As loathe as I am to go to Wikipedia as tech support - hardly the purpose of this site - I'm really running out of options here, so here it goes... I recently installed a Maxtor 200 gb drive in my Gateway 700S desktop. Unfortunately, while I know the drive contains 200 gb, the operating system flat out refuses to recognize that the drive contains anything more than 137 GB.
What makes it doubly weird is that I just flashed my BIOS, and *it* recognizes that there are 200 GB in there. It's just the operating system - Windows XP Professional, SP2 - that's the problem.
I've talked with Gateway tech support, and they say that the only solution is to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall Windows. It strikes me as a bit blunt of a solution, and I'm loathe to do unless I know for certain it'll work. Anyone out there have any more advice for me? I could use a second opinion.
Thanks. -- Brasswatchman 03:43, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
The original releases of Windows XP had trouble seeing more than 137gb of a hard drive - see this link for example. The easiest solution is to partition the drive, something familiar to anyone who remembers the old 2gb limit from days gone by; I would partition a 200gb drive into a 20gb partition for the operating system and other core utilities, and two 80gb partitions for... games and music, for example. - Ashley Pomeroy 14:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Disk Management seems to have done the trick. Thank you all very much. Don't know what I would have done otherwise. :) -- Brasswatchman 19:41, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Two articles (below) disagree on application of SR to accelerated systems. Which is correct ? Can't the 2 editors convene to correct this contradiction?
from "Sagnac effect":
The result of the Sagnac experiment has been cited by many as a disproof of the theory of relativity.... The reasoning is that if the speed of light is a constant for the observer, then for the observer on the rotating ring light should take the same time to travel each way and no effect should occur. This argument does not hold because the rotating ring is an accelerated frame of reference, while the constancy of the speed of light (c) applies only in inertial frames of reference.
from "Status of special relativity": A common misstatement about relativity is that SR cannot be used to handle the case of objects and observers who are undergoing acceleration (non-inertial reference frames), but this is incorrect. For an example, see the relativistic rocket problem.
Robert Bennett
I have an all-in-one inkjet printer (Brother MFC-3420). Recently it has been showing white horizontal streak or lines through printed text. I have checked the ink; I have also restarted the printer. However, neither of these actions have proved fruitful. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? (I have had the printer for a year and a half.)
--anonym
How would you construct an approximate ellipse using two radii only? What would be the ratio of the lenght of the two radii, for a known ratio of the lengths of major and minor axies (say 1:1.3) ? thanks chrish
- an oval is probably a more appropriate term for my 'approximate ellipse' When making 'elliptical' paving for a terrace each section of paving is made by packing the material into a mould to set. the constraints of manufacture are such that each mould section can only be a true radii. thus the need to breakdown an ellipse into an approximation with a number of sections of different true radii. since each mould is quite costly the cheapest method is to form an approximate ellipse or oval using two radii only. one larger radius centred on the minor axis and a smaller one on the major axis so that the circumferences meet at a common tangential point. it would be useful to have a correlation between the ratio of axies and radii so that for a given set of axies lengths and one chosen radii the second radii could be calculated. at present this is only found by trial and error, with paper and compasses. chrish
Hi, I have just seen War of the Worlds and note that all the cars (and everything else) was stopped by the EMP. But I've also been told by an ex-mechanic that a deisel engine would not be affected in the same way as it works on compression ignition. So as long as it was running when the EMP struck it should continue. Have I got one over on Mr Spielberg?
Can you explain to a layperson the difference between emf and voltage?
--anonym
How is related to?
Please add anything that might amplify my understanding.
--anonym
Math equation - the question as it is asked doesn't really make sense. Well, I guess you could set V = E, but that really doesn't tell you much. Where did the equation come from?
In electromagnetism, does induce mean to bring about a change in current? --anonym
My source is Physics, 5th edition, by Dougals Giancoli, p.623.
--anonym
Can a ray of light travel through vacuum? And does is have mass? If it doesnt, then is it affected by gravity?-- 203.92.55.61 04:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)Royd
I have an acoustic box guitar with 12 playable frets. Is there anyway i can increase the length of the fret board to accomodate atleast 22 frets without affecting the overall physics of the guitar? No modifications on the body is permitted. -- 203.92.55.61 05:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)StratOnLSD
Twelve dots are drawn on a page in such a way that no three are collinear. How many straight lines can be formed by joining the dots?
--anonym
Ok, I'll play:
No three are collinear, and so every combination of two dots define a unique line. n! / (n-r)! = 12! / 10! = 12* 11 = 132. Two dots can be chosen from twelve dots in 132 different ways. - Nunh-huh 08:29, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
. Every 2 dots form a line.
--anonym
Yep, forgot the 2! in the denominator. 66 it is. - Nunh-huh 21:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Three delegates are to be chosen from a group of four lawyers, a priest, and three professors. In how many ways can the delegation be chosen if it must include at least one professor?
--anonym
Let me play:
You must have one professor, and there are seven others. Your options number 1 * 7 * 6. More precisely, you have a choice of three for the first option which must be a professor, but there are three choices, so 3 * 7 * 6 * 1/3, since any of the initial three professors will work. I am not a statistics student, so prefer any answer which explicitly explains why I'm wrong.- gadfium 08:46, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm only a high school maths student, but I get 63: 3 × (7 choose 2) = 63. There are three ways of choosing the professor, and (7 choose 2) ways of choosing the other two delegates. That is, if order is not important. If order is important, then it is 3× 7 × 6 = 126. I'm also assuming the delegate can have more than one professor, as the question above states. Graham 13:23, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
#include<stdio.h> //1-3=Prof. 1-3, 4=Priest, 5-8=Lawyer 1-4 int main() { int i,j,k; int total=0; int noprof=0; for (i=1;i!=9;i++) { for (j=1;j!=9;j++) { for (k=1;k!=9;k++) { if ((i!=j) && (j!=k) && (i!=k)) { total++; if ((i>3) && (j>3) && (k>3)) { noprof++; } } } } } printf("%d/%d with no professor",noprof,total); }
60/336 with no professor
, proving my result above. --
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14:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC)Scratch that. There are 8 choose 3 = 56 ways of choosing delegates with no restrictions, and 5 choose 3 = 10 ways of choosing a delegate with no professor. So the solution is 56 - 10 = 46, as above. I'll remember that one ... Graham 13:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
What does CRDi technology in Cars stands for? And what is its importance? -Optional Check
Hi, I recently redesigned my site using css, which made it look a LOT better and cleaner. Now, I'm wondering, what advantages would I have in incorporating XHTML into my site? What can XHTML/CSS do that HTML/CSS can't? Also, consider the fact that I'm using PHP code to generate this HTML, so that may also come into play. Or am I already using XHTML and I don't know it? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 15:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
My sister has got a laptop with Windows 98 OS from my aunt, but the thing fails to make sound when selecting MP3 files (or any other type of sound for that matter). I found the link that's supposed to go to the volume control panel goes to the regular control panel and there's no sound control there. I hear you say: has this thing got a sound card. Yes it does, cause playing CDs works fine. Any idea how to get it working properly? - 82.172.23.66 16:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Is
pentalene
aromatic? According to
aromatic hydrocarbon#PAHs, it is.
Encyclopedia Britannica says it isn't.
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Which is correct?
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One of my relatives was hospitalized for two days due to a car accident on the 6th of February, this year. Ever since she has been getting inundated with bills on a regular basis. Some of the items on a most recent bill are
Item # | Description | Amount | Date |
1 | Hospital Conslt | $600 | 2/6/2005 |
2 | Hospital Visit | $300 | 2/7/2005 |
3 | Hospital Discharge | $300 | 2/8/2005 |
4 | Suture of Wnds 22 Cm | $1,800 | 2/6/2005 |
5 | Add 5Cm/Less Rep | $450 | 2/6/2005 |
--anonym
This bill was received from a physician in California, U.S.A. --anonym
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That's pretty much the way it works. The basic hospital rates don't cover physician services, which are billed for separately. - Nunh-huh 23:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC) BTW - if it was a car accident, isn't it covered by insurance? - Nunh-huh 23:29, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
--anonym
Many hospitals employ no doctors. Some hospitals employ all the doctors on their staff (closed staff). Some hospitals employ some doctors but also have many community physicians with privileges at the hospital. Fees from doctors employed by the hospital (excluding house staff) are included in the hospital bill; fees from office-based doctors not full-time employees of the hospital will bill separately.
Few seriously ill or injured people get in and out of the hospital without seeing more than one doctor. The consultation charge is from a physician who was advising without providing the principal care (e.g., an internist seeing a trauma surgery patient to manage his diabetes). The hospital visit is the daily care from the principal attending physician (excluding day of admission and discharge). The discharge was for the same physician's hospital visit on day of discharge; it is a higher charge because it usually takes more time and involves discharge planning. If these physician charges were on the hospital bill it means the physician was employed by the hospital. I am less familiar with surgical billing but the final charge is simply for additional suturing beyond the 22 cm; I'm not sure what "less rep" means if it was transcribed correctly.
You have no idea what you are talking about with respect to the relationship of hospital and surgeons. Why would you not expect a surgeon to charge if he/she gets called from the office to see a patient in the hospital? How do you think he/she earns a living?
Finally, why on earth haven't you asked these questions of the hospital? They pay full-time employees to answer these questions. alteripse 17:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
(It said computing questions go here, so...)
Where can I compare and shop for closed-source wiki engines? Comparison of wiki software only lists open source software, and 'wiki' is so hit upon by advertisers that neither Google nor Yahoo can provide effective results. Almafeta 00:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Our history of medicine unfortunately doesn't cover ancient Rome, and it looks like we don't have anything on instruments in particular. There's a nice looking collection of pictures of Roman instruments here. If you are interested in tracking down the roots of some of the instruments and methods, Ancient Egyptians were quite renowned for their medical experitise, particularly by Greeks, who seemed to dominate Roman medicine, so I'd bet that some of their instruments carried over. (I'm restraining myself from simply recommending reading Galen.) — Laura Scudder | Talk 06:56, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sirs,
A question to which I think I know the answer, and which is possibly very easy for you to confirm.
If you have a fixed object at the end of a rod, secured at the other end so it is like the hand of a clock, if you drop the object from position 2 on a clock face, when it reaches position 6 on the face, the mass at the non fixed end will have accelerated to x Metres per second.
If you repeat the procedure, allowing a weight to travel from the fixed point of the rod to the object at the end when it is dropped, when the object at the end reaches position 6 on the clock face, will it's acceleration be greater than the original x metres per second, due to the movement of the weight down the rod to the fixed object. If this assumption is correct, could you tell me what particular laws of physics govern the phenomenon, and could you also confirm that the figure x meters per second would be improved upon if either the mass of the additional weight, or the distance it travelled down the rod were varied. Is ther a calculation to prove this?
Many thanks,
Bill Friend.
WHAT BONE IN OUR BODY DOES NOT GROW.
Maybe he/she means a bone that is the same size in a newborn and in an adult. Ornil 20:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
There are indeed a number of bones in the human body that do not grow after birth. Hint: there's six of them in every human. Proto t c 13:40, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
What occurred to me when this question was first posted were the inner ear bones. They are formed by 20 weeks and I am skeptical that no growth from first fetal formation occurs, although they may not change much from infancy to adult life, in which case this is one of those annoying, poorly worded questions where we are challenged to guess what misconception the questioner is imagining or what answer the questioner intended us to give instead of the accurate answer to the literal question, which I suspect is "none". alteripse 10:58, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
In research done by Edward Rice in February of 2004, NPTL was compared to the Windows Threading Library. A program written in Java created multiple threads that ran at the same time. This program was run on both Windows and Linux on a dual boot system Intel non-hyper-threading chipset. It was discovered that Windows handled threads that yielded often better than Red Hat Linux 9, but Red Hat Linux 9 handled threads that yielded less frequently better than Windows. It was concluded that this was the result of the time it takes for a thread to yield and the virtual machine to pick a new one.
Who is Edward Rice? Where is this research? If it isn't available to be read anywhere, why is it referenced in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTL entry.
Thanks much. Christopher Warner 64.61.118.58 17:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
How many homes and or business would a 750 megawatt power plant service?
Depends on where you are (due to variations in AC/heating usage, etc.) In the US, expect somewhere between 400 and 1000 homes per MW (hotter places usually needing more power), so about 300,000 - 750,000 houses for a 750 MW plant. Businesses, I've no idea. -- DrBob 19:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
I am searching for the name of a mental disorder which i am having trouble even describing. I would like to know what it is called when someone will take events that happen in the world and see it in a way that makes them despise society to the point they feel despression and regret at having lived and seen such things - or even make them feel as though they have to isolate themselves simply because they can no longer stand seeing them or hearing about them. For instance, a racist attack could trigger a spiral of depression for the sufferer who, although understanding the cruel act completely, cannot overcome or get over the incident that happened to someone they may neither know or be the same race as. A further example will be the sufferer witnessing acts such as corruption, be it a from a large corporation or the local newspaper seller who does one dodgy deal ont he side. the sufferer will see such acts and feel overwhelming emotions of despite and hatred for those who would live in such corrupt ways. these two acts, and any other kind of 'wrong' act for that matter, have an effect on the sufferer who feels more than a simple dislike for what they see and know to be wrong, because they have such high ideals of what is just and right, and how the world should be. but how the world is makes them want to remove themselves from society, because they cannot bare the thought that, to them, the world is a place that will never be perfect, or even truely good. i was just wondering what such a condition would be called.
It is not a mental disorder. No specific trauma is mentioned and this is not a recognized aspect of PTSD or any other entity in the DSM-IV-R. We could trivialize it by pointing out how adolescent the combination of naive idealism and excessively harsh judgementalism is. Or we could call it a spiritual disorder. In Christian times and cultures this was termed the recognition of the fallen nature of man, or in the last century as being a soul too delicate for coarse flesh. I also suspect it comes not from an excess of empathy but an unbalanced empathy that cannot recognize the transgressors as being as equally human as the victims. If one cannot stand to live in the real world as it is among sinners, one solution often resorted to in the past is monastic life or simply the isolation of a hermit. With the right public relations support you can become a saint. Or maybe the solution is to become more familiar with the world, more accepting of human nature, and grow up... alteripse 21:18, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Excellent! Veltshmairts it is! alteripse 01:20, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Ok, suppose I have a set of pairs of coordinate points representing line segments. What would be the best way to check of any lines cross?-- Fangz 22:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
1.(3,5) and (6,11) 2.(5,4) and (7,12)
1.y=2x-1 2.y=4x-16 0=-2x+15 2x=15 x=7.5
They intersect where x=7.5. This is inefficient, but it's an okay idea to start with. Do you get the idea? Superm401 | Talk 23:13, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
I am researching the standard model of particle physics and quantum mechanics, in order to get a solid conceptual grasp on the ideas therein. One topic remains quite hard for me to visualize, however: what exactly is quantum spin? I have no formal physics background, but these things interest me _very_ much. Can anyone provide an accurate metaphorical explanation of what quantum spin is?
Thanks in advance, Robert Winslow
There are some interesting formulas given for determining the velocity of an object at a given point on its orbit, but it's unclear what units are required. The answers I'm getting aren't adding up to anything that makes any sense or agrees with what's in the literature.
Could you clarify this, pleasse? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.209.99.84 ( talk) 01:06, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
where:
Traditionally, the hemoglobin disorder that causes misshapen red blood cells was known as " sickle-cell anemia"; now, however, I'm seeing the more general " sickle-cell disease" used, especially in medical journals and such sources as my IB Biology II book.
Is "disease" preferable to "anemia"? My guess is that the naming standards changed because anemia is not the only sympton, but I could be wrong.
Google suggests "anemia" is more common (in all Web results and news results), but there are factors that lean towards the use of "disease," such as the name of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America and the results of a search of the New England Journal of Medicine website (190 for "disease," 156 for "anemia," and 14 for "anemia").
A search of only university sites yields 399,000 hits for "disease" and 560,000 for "anemia"; the same search for only government sites yields 88,800 and 115,000 hits, respectively. Switching to "disease" would eliminate some thorny American/British spelling issues ("anemia"/"anaemia"). Any advice as far as what our article name should be? Neutrality talk 04:41, August 20, 2005 (UTC)
It doesn't matter! It's all the same condition. Sickle cell anemia was the original name. Some people prefer SCD because the anemia is often not the major problem for people and SCD reflects the multi-organ nature of the condition. Current American textbooks and medical journal articles tend to prefer SCD. alteripse 09:48, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
did the earth really move off its axis? if so how far?and last question,did it cause a difference in the distance from the earth to the moon? (anon)
To whomever may be intelligent enough to answer this question (if it is answerable), I offer this addendum: How can a planet (or ball or any other spinning object) move off an axis? Doesn't whatever imaginary diameter it is currently spinning around just become its new axis? Garrett Albright 11:58, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
AA Batteries typically offer 1.5 V. However, NiMH AA batteries offer only 1.2 V. My questions are:
-- Lizard Wizard 00:35, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Prove that the number of people who have shaken hands an odd number of times is an even number. --anonym
Where H=handshakes, P=people, (p-1) because out of p people I do not shake hands with myself. There are p*(p-1) encounters, and I divide by 2 because John and Mary shake hands once.
What do you think? Am I wrong? Do you proceed with a different thread of reasoning and would you like explain in a less verbal fashion? --anonym.
I get confused starting with "On the other hand, it is the sum over all people of the number of times each person has shaken hands. What can you say about the number of odd terms in a sum whose result is even ?" Can someone symbolically explain this part?--anonym
If then what does it equal?
>Suppose there are two people. Then each person shakes hands once.
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1
Now another guy walks into the room. He shakes hands with the two people already there (two handshakes for him), and each of the people already there adds a handshake to his collection (two total for them):
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1 3 2
Now another guy walks into the room. He shakes hands with the three people already there (three handshakes for him), and each of the people already there adds a handshake to his collection (three total for them):
People Handshakes per person ------ --------------------- 2 1 3 2 4 3
If you continue this for a while, you'll see that the number of handshakes per person is odd only when the number of people is even.
> 2H=N*(N-1)
Odd handshakes-->even people, e.g., 45 handshakes-->10 people.
--even people ---does not imply--> odd handshakes because, for example, 24 people shake hands 276 times.
But the basic equation is (handshakes)*2=(people)*(people-1).
-anonym - learning that I was initially right.
I think I got it right; however, if I still do not understand another aspect of the problem, then let me know. --anonym
Find a simple formula for where is the kth Fibonacci number. --anonym
is
In the case of the picture, we have
Thank you.--anonym
Find the product . --anonym
equal?--anonym
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1 - 1/4 = (1 - 1/2)(1 + 1/2) = 1/2 x 3/2
1 - 1/9 = (1 - 1/3)(1 + 1/3) = 2/3 x 4/3
1 - 1/16 = (1 - 1/4)(1 + 1/4) = 3/4 x 5/4
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1 -1/n^2 = (1 - 1/n)(1 + 1/n) = (n-1)/n x (n+1)/n
If we multiply these all together we get
1/2 x 3/2 x 2/3 x 4/3 x 3/4 x 5/4 x .... x (n-1)/n x (n+1)/n
All terms cancel except very first and very last giving the result
1/2 x (n+1)/n
If n -> infinity (n+1)/n -> 1 so the product -> 1/2
--Anonym with Dr. Math's help.
I've noticed a few biographical articles that had the person's blood type listed. Of those I've seen, all of them concerned someone who was from China or Taiwan. Is this some sort of cultural thing over there? Or is it maybe just coincidence that I ran into the articles that someone pulled info from the same source books or magazines that happen to list this sort of info? Dismas 09:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
The closest similar idiocy in the US was the Eat Right for Your Bloodtype book by Peter Adamo, which read as if it were describing how to feed different species of pets (e.g., herbivores vs carnivores) all based on this single inheritable cell surface protein! alteripse 10:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I am stuck on this Sudoku problem and would like some help with it. Ideally, the solution and perhaps an analysis of where I went wrong :-) I don't know where this particular puzzle came from since I found it lying around in the office.
Here's the puzzle
4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | |||||
5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||
3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |||||
6 | 8 | 2 | 4 | |||||
9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | |||||
3 | 7 | 5 | 8 | |||||
2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | |||||
6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
I have:
4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 7 | X | 3 | 1 | |
5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | ||||
6 | X | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |||
6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | X | X | 4 | ||
9 | X | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
3 | 7 | 9 | X | 6 | 5 | 8 | ||
2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | |||
6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | |||||
1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 |
In particular, something seems incorrect in the middle, but if I backtrack, I find a contradiction! Any tips would be appreciated. -- HappyCamper 04:05, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
This puzzle is interesting because (1) the layout is not symmetric and (2) the initial position has an unusually large number of filled-in cells: in newspapers, puzzles typically have 20–30 filled-in cells in the initial grid. This has 36. So I suspect the puzzle has been generated by computer, and rather naïvely too. Gdr 13:05:53, 2005-08-22 (UTC)
what term is used to refer to the process of writing data to a disk?
Can you explain to a layperson how an inductor differs from a resister? Don't they both lower the flow of electric charge, and thus current? If you can include an anology or picture, it would be excellent; however,I will appreciate any comment. --anonym
An inductor tries to keep current flowing if it's already flowing, and resists its flow if it's not already flowing. A resistor resists in either situation. Michael Hardy 22:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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Typesetting tip:
This forum is not limited to plain ASCII. Michael Hardy 22:15, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
In addition, the total number of squares in a 6×6 grid is .
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What are the names of all the deserts in Washington State. The one in particularly I would like to know is the one that is on the east side of Washington and runs from the Canada/Washington border through Oregon and into California.
Hmm. I live in said desert, and I have no idea. I don't think it has a name. -- Matt Yeager 00:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
What are at least four planetary attributes that determine atmospheric composition and behavior of a planet?
Et cetera...
Does bread rot or spoil? Or is there another term applied for bread? --anonym
I am 27 years old. Two years ago I had my 3rd child. Every delivery I have been though I have had natural birth. During these births I have torn or been cut bewteen the vagina and anus. Well I am now noticing that were the doctors have sown me up is begining to tear and there is some swelling and tissue that is extruding out. I have also had my tubs tied if maybe that maks a differance. I am lost for words and scared to go to the doctor. Please if you can give me some insite it will be greatful. Thanks anon
How long do septic tanks (systems) last? We are in the process of buying a 20 year old home with the existing septic tank, what questions or concerns should I have? 67.184.249.226 ( talk · contribs)
The south asian subcontinentis separated from the rest of asia by the?
A. Himalayas and the Hindu Kush
B. Nile Valley
C. Ganges
D. Arabian peninsula
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Why do I feel like saying Go little sparrow, and use this idea to help you find food. And then little sparrow, you will not only not go hungry but you will pass this on to your offspring, and they also will not go hungry. hydnjo talk 02:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
what network is northern exposure now on being hallmark doesn't have it on anymore? thank you
I want to know what the word or code is to make an npc move or attack.
jtl-- 24.255.95.187 00:44, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Can someone tell me the code to make an npc attack and fight in a multiplayer game?
shortyjtl-- 24.255.95.187 23:07, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
If I invest in monthly ordinary annuities, do I have set aside a fixed amount of my income to pay for the annuity every month? Or do I receive a fixed monthly amount? --anonym
Do banks or other financial institutions offer annuities in perpetuity to their customers? --anonym
There are financial instruments that pay out in perpetuity. For example I inherited War Bonds from a relative, who bought them for a one-off payment. They could not be cashed in but would pay out an annual sum. Since they were bought in the war their annual payment would now be a couple of pennies, and I have no idea what happened to them. DJ Clayworth 18:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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I understand that inside any sphere you can place a regular tetrahedron which touches the surface of the sphere at each of its four vertices. Now, if that sphere is the planet earth, I'd like to think there's a way (a formula, a spreadsheet, a simple piece of software) to calculate the latitude and longitude of each of the four points of the (regular) tetrahedron. My A-level maths just isn't up to the job. Of course, because there are an infinite number of different ways to position a tetrahedron inside a sphere I would need to input a starting point, e.g. the latitude and longitude of one of the vertices (and one other parameter, probably an angle?), and the formula/spreadsheet/program would provide the lat and long of the other three points.
Now, my questions are: Has anyone out there done this already? Can any wikipedia readers/contributors do this for me? If not, can anyone suggest anyone they know who would be knowledgeable enough and kind enough to help me out? Thanks a million ... Nick
How can one test the randomness of a set of numbers? --anon 19:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
This may be a pretty good question if it is made precise. As it is, it's too vague to know what you mean. Michael Hardy 22:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
How can I measure the distance where I'm standing from an open field such as a beach to the horizon
4 Your coverage of Vespasian does not include the fact that his family, and himself, were Mule breeders! The fact that his father was a "equestrian," does not mention "Mules."
What in the world is it? It looks very similar to a fly to me, but it's only 20-30 times bigger..
Also, I would like to preserve it. If i keep it in a peanut butter jar, will it stay in good condition? What about if I put it in acrylic resin?
-- Phroziac ( talk) 16:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Is a pumpkin a starch?And is any squash a starch or carbohydrate?
A few stand-up comedians have commented on the real-world phenomenon of people who have eaten exotic (to a Westerner's palate) animals reporting that the animal tastes "like chicken".
What I'm wondering is whether any chemical analyses have been done of different meats that shows that the cooked flesh of various animals is near-identical and would account for the similarity in taste. -- bodnotbod 01:09, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
I've recently been reading Harold McGee's book "McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture" (he has written other similar titles). Apparently the muscle fibres of meat are fairly similar across species but the real difference lies in the fat (which being a storage organ, stores any fat-soluble molecules that the animals may ingest) - apparently lamb/sheep meat has a lot of thymol in it. Also the gut bacteria and their breakdown products will differ among different species and that will contribute to the taste as well. It's a fascinating book! Jo Brodie, 16:42 GMT or BST - I can never remember ;-), Aug 30, 2005
can beetroot leaves be eaten? duncan
I have an unusual condition which earned me much envy over a summer spent on the Chesapeake Bay and in the Maine woods: I am almost immune to mosquito bites. When I am bitten all traces of the bite disappear within fifteen minutes (sometimes literally right before my eyes), while everyone else I know retains an itchy welt for days on end. Does anyone know why this might be? (Sad to say, I lack a similar immunity to the bites of horseflies and black flies and the stings of jellyfish.)
--edward
As with other immunological reactions, "naturally acquired desensitization to mosquito bites occurs during long-term exposure." [2] Gdr 12:36:32, 2005-08-25 (UTC)
If Moon has a far side, is there an earth equivalent? That is, when standing on moon, will one always only see, say, the Western Hemisphere? -- Menchi 20:50, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
In HTML, you can mark text as being in English with either <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb">, or with <div lang="en">. How do you mark text as being in quenya and other fictional languages? Ojw 16:10, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm teaching my daughter and neice HTML. The only thing is I don't know that much myself, i feel as if I am only one step ahead of them. Anyway I don't want to teach bad habits, and I don't want them to have to unlearn later, stuff I taught wrongly in the first place. So I'm thinking use tags for structure rather than display, concentrate on content over style, XHTML,and CSS. Does anyone have any advice for me? The girls are 13 and 12. Can anyone recommend any good tutorials on the web that they can work through? We have an idea for content, we thought a kids version of the not pr0n game. We'll need javascript for the level passwords, and i don't know any javascript so a kids tutorial on how to do that would also be useful. TIA Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 00:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I hope this is the right category (biology/etymology). I need help identifying a burrowing insect; I don't have a picture but I do have a description. For a long time I thought they were millipedes -- but a recent Google Image Search for "millipede" indicates that millipedes are nowhere near as tiny as the things I'm talking about. Nor are they centipedes. These are very small, but they do have tons of legs and an elongated body. I usually see them in clusters, rarely alone, and they have a urine-like odor to them (quite a strong urine-like odor if you get a whole handful of these critters, too). Body usually brown, with shiny yellow or dark-orange legs. They seem to shrivel up and dehydrate if left in the sun for more than 8-10 minutes. Here in California but I think I remember seeing them in the northern part of North Carolina as well, so I don't think they're too specific to any particular region in the United States. -- 69.234.223.139 04:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I want to know how one decides what should be the doping impurity for a particular kind of semi-conductor?
Hello, I would like to know the difference between 4G and WiMAX. Is it the same thing or is the WiMAX a smaller part of 4G?
Thank you,--Rafik 10:15 26/08/2005 Geneva
I will highly appreciate any word, analogy, picture, diagram, or explanation that will enable me to understand this topic.
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Is a photon invisible until it reacts with mater? Are all photons in EM spectrum invisible? Thank you .... Thomas
Just today I've developed soreness and small swellings in both armpits. I thought it was just an unpleasant spot (or pimple), but it's rare for me to get spots, rarer for me to get one under the armpit, and unprecedented to get such under both on the same day and they're quite sensitive/sore.
I seem to remember that this is a symptom of the bubonic plague, however I am sensible enough to realise this is an unlikely cause.
Is something up with my lymphatic system?
Note: I realise WP isn't a subsitute for proper medical advice, and if it persists I'll go into the doctor's on Monday... in the meantime I'm interested in theories. I'm going to regret this deicision if someone scares me, obviously, but hey-ho... -- bodnotbod 23:42, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
Two cards are chosen in order from a deck. In how many ways can this be done if (a) the first card must be a spade and the second must be a heart? (b) both cards must be a spade? --anonym
Think about it. How many cards are ther in a deck? How many of them are spades? What's the change that the first card is a spade? Right now how many cards are left (after you just removed one)? How many of these are hearts? What's the chance that the second one is a heart? Now you've got two probabilities, what's the change of the first one and the second one both happening? Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 01:29, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Am I right?
--anonym.
Yes you are I misread the question. Theresa Knott (a tenth stroke) 02:15, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Two questions about Intelligent design:
As loathe as I am to go to Wikipedia as tech support - hardly the purpose of this site - I'm really running out of options here, so here it goes... I recently installed a Maxtor 200 gb drive in my Gateway 700S desktop. Unfortunately, while I know the drive contains 200 gb, the operating system flat out refuses to recognize that the drive contains anything more than 137 GB.
What makes it doubly weird is that I just flashed my BIOS, and *it* recognizes that there are 200 GB in there. It's just the operating system - Windows XP Professional, SP2 - that's the problem.
I've talked with Gateway tech support, and they say that the only solution is to reformat my main hard drive and reinstall Windows. It strikes me as a bit blunt of a solution, and I'm loathe to do unless I know for certain it'll work. Anyone out there have any more advice for me? I could use a second opinion.
Thanks. -- Brasswatchman 03:43, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
The original releases of Windows XP had trouble seeing more than 137gb of a hard drive - see this link for example. The easiest solution is to partition the drive, something familiar to anyone who remembers the old 2gb limit from days gone by; I would partition a 200gb drive into a 20gb partition for the operating system and other core utilities, and two 80gb partitions for... games and music, for example. - Ashley Pomeroy 14:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Disk Management seems to have done the trick. Thank you all very much. Don't know what I would have done otherwise. :) -- Brasswatchman 19:41, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Two articles (below) disagree on application of SR to accelerated systems. Which is correct ? Can't the 2 editors convene to correct this contradiction?
from "Sagnac effect":
The result of the Sagnac experiment has been cited by many as a disproof of the theory of relativity.... The reasoning is that if the speed of light is a constant for the observer, then for the observer on the rotating ring light should take the same time to travel each way and no effect should occur. This argument does not hold because the rotating ring is an accelerated frame of reference, while the constancy of the speed of light (c) applies only in inertial frames of reference.
from "Status of special relativity": A common misstatement about relativity is that SR cannot be used to handle the case of objects and observers who are undergoing acceleration (non-inertial reference frames), but this is incorrect. For an example, see the relativistic rocket problem.
Robert Bennett
I have an all-in-one inkjet printer (Brother MFC-3420). Recently it has been showing white horizontal streak or lines through printed text. I have checked the ink; I have also restarted the printer. However, neither of these actions have proved fruitful. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? (I have had the printer for a year and a half.)
--anonym
How would you construct an approximate ellipse using two radii only? What would be the ratio of the lenght of the two radii, for a known ratio of the lengths of major and minor axies (say 1:1.3) ? thanks chrish
- an oval is probably a more appropriate term for my 'approximate ellipse' When making 'elliptical' paving for a terrace each section of paving is made by packing the material into a mould to set. the constraints of manufacture are such that each mould section can only be a true radii. thus the need to breakdown an ellipse into an approximation with a number of sections of different true radii. since each mould is quite costly the cheapest method is to form an approximate ellipse or oval using two radii only. one larger radius centred on the minor axis and a smaller one on the major axis so that the circumferences meet at a common tangential point. it would be useful to have a correlation between the ratio of axies and radii so that for a given set of axies lengths and one chosen radii the second radii could be calculated. at present this is only found by trial and error, with paper and compasses. chrish
Hi, I have just seen War of the Worlds and note that all the cars (and everything else) was stopped by the EMP. But I've also been told by an ex-mechanic that a deisel engine would not be affected in the same way as it works on compression ignition. So as long as it was running when the EMP struck it should continue. Have I got one over on Mr Spielberg?
Can you explain to a layperson the difference between emf and voltage?
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How is related to?
Please add anything that might amplify my understanding.
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Math equation - the question as it is asked doesn't really make sense. Well, I guess you could set V = E, but that really doesn't tell you much. Where did the equation come from?
In electromagnetism, does induce mean to bring about a change in current? --anonym
My source is Physics, 5th edition, by Dougals Giancoli, p.623.
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Can a ray of light travel through vacuum? And does is have mass? If it doesnt, then is it affected by gravity?-- 203.92.55.61 04:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)Royd
I have an acoustic box guitar with 12 playable frets. Is there anyway i can increase the length of the fret board to accomodate atleast 22 frets without affecting the overall physics of the guitar? No modifications on the body is permitted. -- 203.92.55.61 05:22, 28 August 2005 (UTC)StratOnLSD
Twelve dots are drawn on a page in such a way that no three are collinear. How many straight lines can be formed by joining the dots?
--anonym
Ok, I'll play:
No three are collinear, and so every combination of two dots define a unique line. n! / (n-r)! = 12! / 10! = 12* 11 = 132. Two dots can be chosen from twelve dots in 132 different ways. - Nunh-huh 08:29, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
. Every 2 dots form a line.
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Yep, forgot the 2! in the denominator. 66 it is. - Nunh-huh 21:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
Three delegates are to be chosen from a group of four lawyers, a priest, and three professors. In how many ways can the delegation be chosen if it must include at least one professor?
--anonym
Let me play:
You must have one professor, and there are seven others. Your options number 1 * 7 * 6. More precisely, you have a choice of three for the first option which must be a professor, but there are three choices, so 3 * 7 * 6 * 1/3, since any of the initial three professors will work. I am not a statistics student, so prefer any answer which explicitly explains why I'm wrong.- gadfium 08:46, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm only a high school maths student, but I get 63: 3 × (7 choose 2) = 63. There are three ways of choosing the professor, and (7 choose 2) ways of choosing the other two delegates. That is, if order is not important. If order is important, then it is 3× 7 × 6 = 126. I'm also assuming the delegate can have more than one professor, as the question above states. Graham 13:23, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
#include<stdio.h> //1-3=Prof. 1-3, 4=Priest, 5-8=Lawyer 1-4 int main() { int i,j,k; int total=0; int noprof=0; for (i=1;i!=9;i++) { for (j=1;j!=9;j++) { for (k=1;k!=9;k++) { if ((i!=j) && (j!=k) && (i!=k)) { total++; if ((i>3) && (j>3) && (k>3)) { noprof++; } } } } } printf("%d/%d with no professor",noprof,total); }
60/336 with no professor
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14:12, 29 August 2005 (UTC)Scratch that. There are 8 choose 3 = 56 ways of choosing delegates with no restrictions, and 5 choose 3 = 10 ways of choosing a delegate with no professor. So the solution is 56 - 10 = 46, as above. I'll remember that one ... Graham 13:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
What does CRDi technology in Cars stands for? And what is its importance? -Optional Check
Hi, I recently redesigned my site using css, which made it look a LOT better and cleaner. Now, I'm wondering, what advantages would I have in incorporating XHTML into my site? What can XHTML/CSS do that HTML/CSS can't? Also, consider the fact that I'm using PHP code to generate this HTML, so that may also come into play. Or am I already using XHTML and I don't know it? — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 15:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
My sister has got a laptop with Windows 98 OS from my aunt, but the thing fails to make sound when selecting MP3 files (or any other type of sound for that matter). I found the link that's supposed to go to the volume control panel goes to the regular control panel and there's no sound control there. I hear you say: has this thing got a sound card. Yes it does, cause playing CDs works fine. Any idea how to get it working properly? - 82.172.23.66 16:14, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
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One of my relatives was hospitalized for two days due to a car accident on the 6th of February, this year. Ever since she has been getting inundated with bills on a regular basis. Some of the items on a most recent bill are
Item # | Description | Amount | Date |
1 | Hospital Conslt | $600 | 2/6/2005 |
2 | Hospital Visit | $300 | 2/7/2005 |
3 | Hospital Discharge | $300 | 2/8/2005 |
4 | Suture of Wnds 22 Cm | $1,800 | 2/6/2005 |
5 | Add 5Cm/Less Rep | $450 | 2/6/2005 |
--anonym
This bill was received from a physician in California, U.S.A. --anonym
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That's pretty much the way it works. The basic hospital rates don't cover physician services, which are billed for separately. - Nunh-huh 23:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC) BTW - if it was a car accident, isn't it covered by insurance? - Nunh-huh 23:29, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
--anonym
Many hospitals employ no doctors. Some hospitals employ all the doctors on their staff (closed staff). Some hospitals employ some doctors but also have many community physicians with privileges at the hospital. Fees from doctors employed by the hospital (excluding house staff) are included in the hospital bill; fees from office-based doctors not full-time employees of the hospital will bill separately.
Few seriously ill or injured people get in and out of the hospital without seeing more than one doctor. The consultation charge is from a physician who was advising without providing the principal care (e.g., an internist seeing a trauma surgery patient to manage his diabetes). The hospital visit is the daily care from the principal attending physician (excluding day of admission and discharge). The discharge was for the same physician's hospital visit on day of discharge; it is a higher charge because it usually takes more time and involves discharge planning. If these physician charges were on the hospital bill it means the physician was employed by the hospital. I am less familiar with surgical billing but the final charge is simply for additional suturing beyond the 22 cm; I'm not sure what "less rep" means if it was transcribed correctly.
You have no idea what you are talking about with respect to the relationship of hospital and surgeons. Why would you not expect a surgeon to charge if he/she gets called from the office to see a patient in the hospital? How do you think he/she earns a living?
Finally, why on earth haven't you asked these questions of the hospital? They pay full-time employees to answer these questions. alteripse 17:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
(It said computing questions go here, so...)
Where can I compare and shop for closed-source wiki engines? Comparison of wiki software only lists open source software, and 'wiki' is so hit upon by advertisers that neither Google nor Yahoo can provide effective results. Almafeta 00:19, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Our history of medicine unfortunately doesn't cover ancient Rome, and it looks like we don't have anything on instruments in particular. There's a nice looking collection of pictures of Roman instruments here. If you are interested in tracking down the roots of some of the instruments and methods, Ancient Egyptians were quite renowned for their medical experitise, particularly by Greeks, who seemed to dominate Roman medicine, so I'd bet that some of their instruments carried over. (I'm restraining myself from simply recommending reading Galen.) — Laura Scudder | Talk 06:56, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Dear Sirs,
A question to which I think I know the answer, and which is possibly very easy for you to confirm.
If you have a fixed object at the end of a rod, secured at the other end so it is like the hand of a clock, if you drop the object from position 2 on a clock face, when it reaches position 6 on the face, the mass at the non fixed end will have accelerated to x Metres per second.
If you repeat the procedure, allowing a weight to travel from the fixed point of the rod to the object at the end when it is dropped, when the object at the end reaches position 6 on the clock face, will it's acceleration be greater than the original x metres per second, due to the movement of the weight down the rod to the fixed object. If this assumption is correct, could you tell me what particular laws of physics govern the phenomenon, and could you also confirm that the figure x meters per second would be improved upon if either the mass of the additional weight, or the distance it travelled down the rod were varied. Is ther a calculation to prove this?
Many thanks,
Bill Friend.
WHAT BONE IN OUR BODY DOES NOT GROW.
Maybe he/she means a bone that is the same size in a newborn and in an adult. Ornil 20:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
There are indeed a number of bones in the human body that do not grow after birth. Hint: there's six of them in every human. Proto t c 13:40, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
What occurred to me when this question was first posted were the inner ear bones. They are formed by 20 weeks and I am skeptical that no growth from first fetal formation occurs, although they may not change much from infancy to adult life, in which case this is one of those annoying, poorly worded questions where we are challenged to guess what misconception the questioner is imagining or what answer the questioner intended us to give instead of the accurate answer to the literal question, which I suspect is "none". alteripse 10:58, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
In research done by Edward Rice in February of 2004, NPTL was compared to the Windows Threading Library. A program written in Java created multiple threads that ran at the same time. This program was run on both Windows and Linux on a dual boot system Intel non-hyper-threading chipset. It was discovered that Windows handled threads that yielded often better than Red Hat Linux 9, but Red Hat Linux 9 handled threads that yielded less frequently better than Windows. It was concluded that this was the result of the time it takes for a thread to yield and the virtual machine to pick a new one.
Who is Edward Rice? Where is this research? If it isn't available to be read anywhere, why is it referenced in this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTL entry.
Thanks much. Christopher Warner 64.61.118.58 17:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
How many homes and or business would a 750 megawatt power plant service?
Depends on where you are (due to variations in AC/heating usage, etc.) In the US, expect somewhere between 400 and 1000 homes per MW (hotter places usually needing more power), so about 300,000 - 750,000 houses for a 750 MW plant. Businesses, I've no idea. -- DrBob 19:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
I am searching for the name of a mental disorder which i am having trouble even describing. I would like to know what it is called when someone will take events that happen in the world and see it in a way that makes them despise society to the point they feel despression and regret at having lived and seen such things - or even make them feel as though they have to isolate themselves simply because they can no longer stand seeing them or hearing about them. For instance, a racist attack could trigger a spiral of depression for the sufferer who, although understanding the cruel act completely, cannot overcome or get over the incident that happened to someone they may neither know or be the same race as. A further example will be the sufferer witnessing acts such as corruption, be it a from a large corporation or the local newspaper seller who does one dodgy deal ont he side. the sufferer will see such acts and feel overwhelming emotions of despite and hatred for those who would live in such corrupt ways. these two acts, and any other kind of 'wrong' act for that matter, have an effect on the sufferer who feels more than a simple dislike for what they see and know to be wrong, because they have such high ideals of what is just and right, and how the world should be. but how the world is makes them want to remove themselves from society, because they cannot bare the thought that, to them, the world is a place that will never be perfect, or even truely good. i was just wondering what such a condition would be called.
It is not a mental disorder. No specific trauma is mentioned and this is not a recognized aspect of PTSD or any other entity in the DSM-IV-R. We could trivialize it by pointing out how adolescent the combination of naive idealism and excessively harsh judgementalism is. Or we could call it a spiritual disorder. In Christian times and cultures this was termed the recognition of the fallen nature of man, or in the last century as being a soul too delicate for coarse flesh. I also suspect it comes not from an excess of empathy but an unbalanced empathy that cannot recognize the transgressors as being as equally human as the victims. If one cannot stand to live in the real world as it is among sinners, one solution often resorted to in the past is monastic life or simply the isolation of a hermit. With the right public relations support you can become a saint. Or maybe the solution is to become more familiar with the world, more accepting of human nature, and grow up... alteripse 21:18, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Excellent! Veltshmairts it is! alteripse 01:20, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
Ok, suppose I have a set of pairs of coordinate points representing line segments. What would be the best way to check of any lines cross?-- Fangz 22:45, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
1.(3,5) and (6,11) 2.(5,4) and (7,12)
1.y=2x-1 2.y=4x-16 0=-2x+15 2x=15 x=7.5
They intersect where x=7.5. This is inefficient, but it's an okay idea to start with. Do you get the idea? Superm401 | Talk 23:13, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
I am researching the standard model of particle physics and quantum mechanics, in order to get a solid conceptual grasp on the ideas therein. One topic remains quite hard for me to visualize, however: what exactly is quantum spin? I have no formal physics background, but these things interest me _very_ much. Can anyone provide an accurate metaphorical explanation of what quantum spin is?
Thanks in advance, Robert Winslow