Probably not many current members know who Dyksexlic was, since he hasn't posted for almost 11 years and he was most active on forums that are now gone.
Anyway, yesterday I was reading the slides of a university lecture from 2009, and it sounded too familiar. The 12th page of the pdf matches word to word with Dyk's below post from late 2010. It's strange. Maybe Peng Shi was Dyksexlic? :lol:
faculty.marshall.usc.edu/Peng-Shi/math149/talk_pigeonhole.pdf
Quote from: Dyksexlic! on Dec 27, 06:45 AM 2010
You're welcome. :thumbsup:
Mathematics sounds the same in ANY language.
The Pigeonhole Principle is a roulette players secret weapon.
In general, it may not be so clear how to apply the Principle.
Sometimes we need to cleverly construct the 'pigeons' and the 'holes'.
If we do this correctly, the proof should be slick.
Otherwise, the problem may seem forbiddingly difficult.
When stuck, do not give up so easily!
You learn and improve the most when you are stuck.
Keep thinking of possible approaches, perhaps for a few hours,
And you might be rewarded with an elegant solution.
This is the ONLY way to learn mathematical problem solving.
Cheers.
Or Dyksexlic just knew how to Google realizing 99.9% of people are too lazy to even see if they were original words.
Quote from: Blueprint on Aug 30, 07:52 PM 2021
Or Dyksexlic just knew how to Google realizing 99.9% of people are too lazy to even see if they were original words.
Or the not so lazy ones who have look for the past 10 years really don't see it!!
I can relate to this, KoolKat but most have simply not put in the work.
Quote from: Blueprint on Aug 31, 10:38 AM 2021Reply
Agreed
Would help if everything was in one topic, i seem to be going from pillar to post :-)