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Title: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-09-12T17:38:20-05:00 (Tuesday)
Ok, I don't know anyone in my class and was looking for a little help and decided to ask here. Is anyone else in Dr. Wu's Discrete Mathematics 224 that meets MW @ 1:30 and working on the homework? On the fourth question, it refers to some "table 2." I was just wondering if anyone know what he was talking about or if they just wrote out all 101 numbers?

Thanks,
John
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: Shaun Martin on 2006-09-12T18:04:30-05:00 (Tuesday)
Table 2 can be found on page 232.  His chapter two stuff is actually our chapter three material.  Section 3.2 covers almost all of the homework problems.
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-09-12T18:16:52-05:00 (Tuesday)
Ok, thanks. For part 5.b, did you write out all 100 items?
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: Shaun Martin on 2006-09-12T18:50:23-05:00 (Tuesday)
No, I basically said that for every time i is an odd number, the answer is -1 and every time it's an even number, the answer is 1.  Nice to know that there's nothing in our book about products...
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: pikapp886 on 2006-09-13T12:24:52-05:00 (Wednesday)
Does anyone know if we have a quiz today (9/13)? If so, what about?
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-09-13T12:45:32-05:00 (Wednesday)
Our syllabis (sp?) says so, and, not to sound too much like an ass, I imagine its over what we covered so far. There will probably be a truth table, DeMorgan's Law (probably not), domains, ranges, functions, ceiling, floor, unions, intersections, vector multiplication, Big Oh (or whatever), or proofs. I doubt he will quiz us over all that, but I also doubt he will mention anything that isn't in that list. Judging from our homework, it probably won't be that hard.
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: Geoff Schreiber on 2006-09-13T18:53:05-05:00 (Wednesday)
QuotePhoenix wrote:
I doubt he will quiz us over all that, but I also doubt he will mention anything that isn't in that list. Judging from our homework, it probably won't be that hard.

You don't know Dr. Wu very well yet... Don't ever assume ANYTHING...
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-10-16T08:23:05-05:00 (Monday)
I was just wondering when the latest homework he assigned is due. The sheet says October 17, but I remember he changed it but not to when. Was it today or Wednesday?

Thanks,
John
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: Shaun Martin on 2006-10-16T10:54:52-05:00 (Monday)
I couldn't remember what he changed it to so I'm just going to try and finish it by classtime today.
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-10-16T12:12:07-05:00 (Monday)
I just talked to someone else and they said it was due Wednesday. Does anyone know what chapter we are on or where we can get these proofs? Are they done by induction?

Thanks,
John
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: pikapp886 on 2006-11-06T12:19:50-06:00 (Monday)
Anybody have the problem he decided to assign us?  I seemed to have lost it.  Also appreciated would be a hint as to where I can find the technique to solve it.
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-11-13T12:04:26-06:00 (Monday)
Did anyone find an answer to Problem 3 homework 7? Can anyone give me any suggestions? Also, when doing the directed mapping from the matrix, how do you know which way the arrows point? For this example:

       a    b

a      0    1
b      0    2

Would this say 'a' points to 'b' once and 'b' points to 'b' twice OR 'a' doesn't point to anything and 'b' points to 'a' once and itself twice?

Thanks,
John
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: pikapp886 on 2006-11-13T12:31:46-06:00 (Monday)
I did it as follows (similar to your first technique):
--a b c
a 0 1 0
b 1 0 1
c 0 1 2
a only points to b
b points to a and c
c points to b and to itself (twice).
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-11-13T12:50:10-06:00 (Monday)
Thanks, but you chose the only one of the three that gives the same result no matter how you did it. :) Oh well though, I'll just see what he says.
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: pikapp886 on 2006-11-13T13:12:36-06:00 (Monday)
these are directional graphs (with directional arrows)
--a b c d
a 1 1 1 0
b 0 0 1 0
c 1 0 1 0
d 1 1 1 0

a points to itself, b, and c (directional arrows)
b points to c
c points to a and itself
d points to a, b, and c
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: pikapp886 on 2006-11-14T12:05:04-06:00 (Tuesday)
Anybody know what to expect on the quiz on Wednesday?
Title: Re: Math 224
Post by: John on 2006-11-15T12:19:48-06:00 (Wednesday)
He said to expect permiatations, combinations, binomial expansion, and graphs. If he made it the day he told us about it then it shouldn't be that hard. We are done with all that, except graphs I think (honestly, I'm not really sure what we are doing in there right now), so there shouldn't be any suprises.