Quote Originally Posted by Taffy_is_a_Taff
what is 2 to the power of 10000?

my fancy calculator just says "inf".
2 to the power of 10000 is 2 to the power of 10000 obviously, what's the point of writing something that can be so elegantly (and correctly) expressed in a binary system in a decimal one ? I really don't get why he would ask something like that.

You don't normally use scientific calculators ? We've used them since grade 10 (I think, might have been 9).

Quote Originally Posted by Uesugi Kenshin
Okay, here's my suggestion. Don't teach people that don't want to be taught math past exponents, quadratics and the beginnings of imaginary numbers. Most students here don't get to that, much less past it. And I certainly will never use what I am learning now ever again, except in classes of course.

I'd rather be slightly unbalanced than have a chance to get a C in Honors pre-calc....
I don't think everyone learns about imaginary numbers, iirc here it's only taught at the 'higher' education levels or in the more technical ones. I think they don't even see them in high School in the Netherlands.