Tycho

Tuesday, January 27, 2004


|e^x(dy/dx)e^x dx * cos( sec ( tan( sin(3.141592653589793584)))) *e*i*radical(pi)

| = integral

Why in HELL woud I ever have to solve this expression? Seriously, what the FUCK does it have to do with real world application. NOTHING!!!

Yeah, I'm procrastinating on memorizing pi to a hundred decimal places. This sucks hard, man, it really bites.

And my Maple don't work. Excellent.

Ok, off to work.

Half a league, half a league
Half a league onward.
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred
"Forward the Light Brigade!"
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the Six Hundred.

"Forward the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew,
Some one had blunder'd
Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd
Stormed at with shot and shell
Boldy they rode, and well
Into the Jaws of Death
Into the Mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd their sabres bare
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there.
Charging an army
While all the world wondered.
Plunged in the battery smoke,
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke:
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them,
Volley'd and thunder'd:
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the Jaws of Death
Back from the Mouth of Hell
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

Yes! All of that was from memory! Well, except for a line or two in the first couple of stanzas. But I've got them down now.

Next poem to be memorized? "If", by Rudyard Kipling.

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