I’ve just created another maths video – this video
demonstrates how to calculate numbers ending in six
squared, like:

76 X 76

It’ll probably take you ten minutes to learn and it’s fun
and really useful too.

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http://www.vedic-maths-ebook.com/6 squared/

If it doesn’t play for you, then I have also made a powerpoint presentation:
http://www.vedic-maths-ebook.com/6%20squared/6_squared.mht (best viewed in Internet Explorer)

Share your comments below.

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Using the multiplication tables is easy. This table will give you all the answers up to 10 X 10.

To multiply 9 X 6 start with the first row of numbers and move across to 9 (highlighted in black).

Next use the column of numbers on the left, and move down to number 6, highlighted in black also.

Now all you need is to move across from the number 6 until you are directly above 9 and the

number you are at is the result of 9 X 6.

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Ok, so what am I talking about? A Binary Watch? What? Recall my earlier posting about

learning the binary number system?

Had you of learn’t about how easy it is to understand binary, then you will be chomping at the bit to know what a
Binary Watch is!

In a nutshell a Binary Watch is a watch, and yes, just like any other watch, it tells the time. It tells the time in Binary.

Binary.

Not like a normal watch with hands and ticking bits, or a LCD display, but in Binary using a display of LEDs configured in a binary fashion that allows “those in the know” to truly understand what time of the day it is (if there is
no other clocks around of course ).

After all, they say that only 10 people in the World understand Binary

His and Hers Binary Watches

It’s all very well having one of these zappy items on your wrist, but how do you use the thing?

The brains at ThinkGeek (aff – new window) have come up with this graphic to tell you how

Hmmm my birthday is coming up next month. I wonder what I will be looking for?

Binary Watch

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Hi readers,

Recently I have been playing Color Junction, an addon to my IGoogle homepage.

What you need to do is get rid of all the coloured dots and be left with a blank square by removing a minimum of two same coloured dots at a time.

If you are having difficulty playing it at its current level, you can select the easy mode by pressing on the Menu arrow of the Color Junction addon and change the difficulty level there.

But lets make this more interesting.

When you start to play the game you will notice that you can connect up the colours to produce a large connection of same coloured dots. When you get a large collection, take a snapshot of the image and post a link to it for us all to see!

I typcially press “PRTSC” on my laptop, open up MS PAINT and then cut out only the picture of the game then same that image to my desktop. You can participate by showing us your great mass of connections!

To start us all off here’s one I did this morning:

Notice the vast majority of blues are all connected.

Your challenge is to do something similar. If you dont have any webspace, just email me your pics and I will upload them for you.

Have fun!

Kevin.

Here’s that same game, only more blue connections:

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Hi all,

A little off topic here, but I am interested to know what your favourite or best workout music is?

Working out to some dance music helps me keep my pace up, but then again I do like to listen to some more melodic tunes too!

Here is an example of what I listen to:

Nickelback – RockStar

Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music

Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’

Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight

Mika – Relax, Take it Easy

Quite a mixed bag there, eh?!

What music keeps you going in the gym? Let us know!

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Hi all,

I have created a video about using the “Send To” menu which you’ll see when you right click on your mouse on a file or folder. The video is here

I am interested to know what you thought of this video, and whether you would like to see more videos created.
With this in mind please let me know by posting a comment here what other videos of Windows XP you would like to see.

Kevin.

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Learning the Binary Code System couldn’t be easier with the system you are about to read.

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Typically when trying to convert binary into numbers people refer to a chart of some sort to get their numbers. From now on you will be able to convert numbers into Binary and Binary into numbers within seconds.

What you need to learn is the Binary Code. Essentially all you need to do is memorize the numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 etc… The pattern here is add the number to itself to get the next number. It’s that easy. 1 plus 1 is 2. 2 + 2 is four, 4 + 4 is 8 etc…

The Binary Code is a series of 1′s and 0′s (ones and zeros).
A binary number looks like this: 110011

Remember those numbers I should you? 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 etc?

When you are learning the binary code, all I ask you to do is write the numbers in reverse. So:

See how this is written? We start with 1, then 2, 4, 8, 16 etc and it is done right to left. This is important as it makes learning the Binary Number System a piece of cake.

Now what you need to do is image underneath the Binary Number System is putting either a 1 or a 0 (one or a zero) under each number, starting from the right to the left.

So if we were to put a 0 underneath the number 1 in the chart above, then a number 1 under number two above, then another 1 above number four we would have an image like this:

Where 1 1 0 is the Binary Number.

So how do we convert 110 into a number? Simple. Wherever there is a 1 add the numbers above it together. In this case add the 4 and 2 giving 6.

Therefore 110 in binary is 6 in decimal.

So how about doing this in reverse? What is 22 in binary? What we need to do is put a 1 underneath all the numbers that will allow us to add up to 22. We can’t use 32 as it is over 22. We can use 16 and the numbers below. But we need to use the numbers until they add up to 22.

So let’s try it.

16 + 8 = 24 so that brings us over 22 and we know then we can’t use 8 next.

16 + 4 = 20. Ok so we are nearly there. 20 + 2 = 22 great we reached out number. So with the Binary Number System just mark off underneath the numbers a 1 wherever we used the number. Where we didn’t use the number put a 0.

So we can now see that the number 22 in Binary is equal to 10110.

Have a look at this webpage here for a Binary to Decimal Calculator. Learn the Binary Number System first, then give it a try!

Please note that this tutorial is not a complete resource on learning Binary conversions. There are other methods too and we do not accept responsibility for any problems that may arise out of you using this system.

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Collection of Famous Einstein Quotes

• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
• “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
• “I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.”
• “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
• “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
• “The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
• “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
• “I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”
• “God is subtle but he is not malicious.”
• “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
• “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
• “The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
• “Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
• “Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”
• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
• “Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”
• “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
• “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
• “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.”
• “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
• “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
• “God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.”
• “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
• “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
• “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”
• “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”
• “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
• “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
• “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
• “Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
• “Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”
• “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
• “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”
• “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
• “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
• “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
• “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.”
• “The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
• “Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
• “Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!”
• “No, this trick won’t work…How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”
• “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
• “Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
• “The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
• “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”
• “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
• “A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
• “The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”
• “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
• “You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
• “One had to cram all this stuff into one’s mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
• “…one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
• “He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
• “A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest… a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
• “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” (Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton)

Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)

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This is a useful method for when travelling between imperial and metric countries and
need to know what kilometres to miles are.

The formula to convert kilometres to miles is number of (kilometres / 8 ) X 5

So lets try 80 kilometres into miles

80/8 = 10

multiplied by 5 is 50 miles!

Another example

40 kilometres

40 / 8 = 5

5 X 5= 25 miles

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Let’s start off with looking at converting Kilos to pounds. 86 kilos into pounds:

Step one, multiply the kilos by TWO.

To do this, just double the kilos.

86 x 2 = 172

Step two, divide the answer by ten.

To do this, just put a decimal point one place in from the right.

172 / 10 = 17.2

Step three, add step two’s answer to step one’s answer.

172 + 17.2 = 189.2

86 Kilos = 189.2 pounds

Let’s try:

50 Kilos to pounds:

Step one, multiply the kilos by TWO.

To do this, just double the kilos.

50 x 2 = 100

Step two, divide the answer by ten.

To do this, just put a decimal point one place in from the right.

100 / 10 = 10

Step three, add step two’s answer to step one’s answer.

100 + 10 = 110

50 Kilos = 110 pounds

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