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Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Ulundel on August 30, 2002, 11:29:15 am
Toyota will replace both pilots next year. That means Salo too. Their grand hope for future. Poor guy. :(
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Bobboau on August 30, 2002, 11:57:29 am
:wtf:
could I have some sort of clue please
Title: Re: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:00:22 pm
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
Toyota will replace both pilots next year. That means Salo too.

that's a mock-up of Star War's Han Solo
note the way they call them 'pilots' too, it's an insult!



I didn't know Toyota made planes
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Gortef on August 30, 2002, 12:02:04 pm
It was quite a surprise for us but Salo said that they have been discussing about this for the last three months (the Chief of Toyota F1 Team and Salo), so... :doubt:

He actually said also that he's going to retire from racing business... at least for a while. "I'm getting too old for F1's" (He's 35... if I recall right)
So the both Mika's are out... after this season.

Nevertheless Salo is not going to loose up before this season is over... so he's going to drive as well as the car will let him :)

And this is from a Finnish Eveningpaper (IltaLehti)
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 12:06:07 pm
Firstly: Why the hell is everyone finnish or can speak the finnish language
Secondly: DRIVERS!!!!!!! Not pilots.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on August 30, 2002, 12:09:20 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Secondly: DRIVERS!!!!!!! Not pilots.


Pilots. Racing cars have pilots, not drivers. :rolleyes:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:10:10 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Firstly: Why the hell is everyone finnish or can speak the finnish language
Secondly: DRIVERS!!!!!!! Not pilots.


1st)  I was wondering the same thing... i'm american!?  :)

2nd)  AWESOME!!! Usually everyone agrees that 'because they're traveling at 270 mph (which btw everyone, isn't that fast) THEY SHOULD BE CALLED PILOTS!


that's BS and you know it. a pilot flies.. these guys drive, so therefore they're called DRIVERS

that's 1st grade crap
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:10:42 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


Pilots. Racing cars have pilots, not drivers. :rolleyes:


a pilot flies
a driver drives


what do these guys do?


EDIT:  webster dictionary:

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Date:  1530

Etymology: Middle French pilote, from Italian pilota, alteration of pedota, from (assumed) Middle Greek pEdOtEs, from Greek pEda steering oars, plural of pEdon oar; probably akin to Greek pod-, pous foot

1 a : one employed to steer a ship : HELMSMAN b : a person who is qualified and usually licensed to conduct a ship into and out of a port or in specified waters c : a person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
2 : GUIDE, LEADER
3 : COWCATCHER
4 : a piece that guides a tool or machine part
5 : a television show produced and filmed or taped as a sample of a proposed series
6 : PILOT LIGHT 2



nothing in there about racing-car drivers :rolleyes:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 12:11:24 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx
Pilots. Racing cars have pilots, not drivers. :rolleyes:

*nukes the southern hemisphere*

DRIVERS!!!!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:13:08 pm
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Originally posted by an0n

*nukes the southern hemisphere*

DRIVERS!!!!


see my above quote
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Ulundel on August 30, 2002, 12:13:11 pm
Yes, PILOTS.
And I don't speak finnish at all.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:14:35 pm
you're just following what you've heard

use common sense... i know they might call them pilots, but it's WRONG!  these guys drive; sure maybe it's twice as fast as most people; but still... they don't fly@
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 12:15:33 pm
Well im Piloting my Bike to school every day then :p
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on August 30, 2002, 12:20:00 pm
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Originally posted by Zeronet
Well im Piloting my Bike to school every day then :p


:rolleyes:

And the admin says it's pilots, then it IS PILOTS. End of story.

:p
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 12:22:37 pm
*goes to pilot a horse*
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on August 30, 2002, 12:26:16 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
*goes to pilot a horse*


:rolleyes:

Some people just can't get it, eh? :p
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Martinus on August 30, 2002, 12:27:19 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
*goes to pilot a horse*


Don't you mean steal a horse? :D

*Pilots thread off rails*
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 12:27:32 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


:rolleyes:

And the admin says it's pilots, then it IS PILOTS. End of story.

:p


Your more a Pilot than a Admin, steering HLP towards a better future.. :D :p
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 12:28:21 pm
Aye-o Silver....

*ignites the horses implanted rocket engines*

...and aw *woosh* WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 30, 2002, 12:28:35 pm
I'm thinking they're called "pilots" because it implies more skill than "drivers", because most Americans are drivers. However, most Americans aren't pilots.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on August 30, 2002, 12:29:09 pm
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Originally posted by Zeronet
Your more a Pilot than a Admin, steering HLP towards a better future.. :D :p


Oooh...

* imagines a cowboy movie ending scene, where he pilots the forums towards the sunset *

:D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Martinus on August 30, 2002, 12:36:00 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Aye-o Silver....

*ignites the horses implanted rocket engines*

...and aw *woosh* WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!


:lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Thorn on August 30, 2002, 12:38:51 pm
A F1 car is a car with wings... inverted wings, but wings nontheless...
Pilots... stfu....
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:58:10 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
Aye-o Silver....

*ignites the horses implanted rocket engines*

...and aw *woosh* WWWWWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!



now THAT's flying :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 12:59:03 pm
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Originally posted by Thorn
A F1 car is a car with wings... inverted wings, but wings nontheless...
Pilots... stfu....


Most Honda Civics and every other drag car nowadays have 'wings' and 'fins'... does that make THEM pilots?



EDIT:
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I'm thinking they're called "pilots" because it implies more skill than "drivers", because most Americans are drivers. However, most Americans aren't pilots.


that's not our fault!  i mean, i could drive a car at 200 MPH on a straight track, or even any track they can.

sure it's dangerous, they crash all the time and crap, but it still doen't mean they're "pilots"... their cars still have a stick-shift, a brake, an accelerator, a clutch and a steering wheel:  making them almost identical to all other cars all over the world

sure they're faster, but they're still CARS!!!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Levyathan on August 30, 2002, 01:16:47 pm
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Originally posted by an0n
*goes to pilot a horse*


Why, do you usually drive a horse?
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Thorn on August 30, 2002, 01:19:09 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
Most Honda Civics and every other drag car nowadays have 'wings' and 'fins'... does that make THEM pilots?

First off, Honda Civics arent "drag cars" its an economy car....
Secondly, those wings and fins were added after, they dont come like that new....
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 01:20:41 pm
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Originally posted by Levyathan
Why, do you usually drive a horse?

Only when I've got my clubs with me.

*waits a few minutes for everyone to understand the joke and cringe*
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Gortef on August 30, 2002, 01:31:11 pm
Yep... there's no doubt about it... the HLPers did it again
the subject of this topics changed as fast as it started :lol:

(actually this must be at least the second F1 topic -or even third- where discussion changed into Pilot vs. Driver argument :D)
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 01:51:05 pm
does this mean that if you pilot race cars, the what about race boats?

And Civics can go just as fast, ( :lol: ) Fast and The Furious anyone (god that movie was like a blow job from a 59 year old man)
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Redfang on August 30, 2002, 01:51:48 pm
F1 is boring and stupid... bleh. :blah:

Hmm, they might be pilots but they should be drivers, they certainly shouldn't be pilots. :p
 
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Originally posted by an0n
Firstly: Why the hell is everyone finnish or can speak the finnish language

 
Since when? :wtf:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 01:54:20 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
(god that movie was like a blow job from a 59 year old man)

Sloppy, painful and gay?
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 01:59:25 pm
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Sloppy, painful and gay?


if only it could fit words....
Title: Re: Re: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stunaep on August 30, 2002, 02:15:33 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth

that's a mock-up of Star War's Han Solo
note the way they call them 'pilots' too, it's an insult!



I didn't know Toyota made planes


1: Cut out the pilot/driver discussion. We've had 3 F1 topics this year, and in EVERY SINGLE ONE of them this arises.

2: I'm not so concerned about Salo, who is in the end of his career anyway, but McNish, who has proven to be an acceptable middle-position pilot (think Trulli, and for the last couple of seasons Villeneuve)

3: I speak Finnish to some extenct (I watched a lot of MTV3 when I was like... 5.)

4: It's times like these that make me wish I had admining powers.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 02:15:55 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
does this mean that if you pilot race cars, the what about race boats?

And Civics can go just as fast, ( :lol: ) Fast and The Furious anyone (god that movie was like a blow job from a 59 year old man)


:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 02:18:11 pm
Con-Crankit there is just too much frumpyness up in here! you know it's true! Snap out of it!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 02:19:56 pm
Do you think theres a reason behind the fact swearing is banned and that the reason could also mean that the content of your posts is also inappropriate.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 02:23:56 pm
I don't need your rhetoric now trebek
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 02:27:15 pm
I'll put it in very simple terms, i dont think you should post stuff like that when young children are about on this site and im tempted to think gamespy wouldnt approve of such stuff, i certainly dont.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: an0n on August 30, 2002, 02:31:30 pm
*is tempted to be defiant*
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 02:33:33 pm
*Adds another to the list*


 as for gamespy... grrr... hell if i'm payin' $10 to play their games..... yet they still ask me every time :mad:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 02:53:02 pm
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Originally posted by Thorn

First off, Honda Civics arent "drag cars" its an economy car....
Secondly, those wings and fins were added after, they dont come like that new....



they aren't drag cars, and only select few cars come with wings and/or fins (Mitsubishi Eclipse, etc.) but a lot of (teenagers) convert them into racing cars... they give them a body kit, etc.  you know what i'm talking about

but still, that' doesn't mean the drivers are called 'pilots'
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 02:55:10 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
does this mean that if you pilot race cars, the what about race boats?

And Civics can go just as fast, ( :lol: ) Fast and The Furious anyone (god that movie was like a blow job from a 59 year old man)


Civics can be easily modified to be racing cars.  Sure they're no F1 racing cars :) lol, but still

and civics are KNOWN for their exhaust system.  listen to a new civic rev up high in neutral.  the whole ground shakes
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 03:29:50 pm
the movie still used hondas...... i mean.... HONDAS!
I knew it was going under after that.
(that and the complete lines of utterly bad acting for lack of better descriptive words.)

But u are right, doesn't make them OR f1's pilots.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Thorn on August 30, 2002, 03:47:46 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth



they aren't drag cars, and only select few cars come with wings and/or fins (Mitsubishi Eclipse, etc.) but a lot of (teenagers) convert them into racing cars... they give them a body kit, etc.  you know what i'm talking about

but still, that' doesn't mean the drivers are called 'pilots'


no.. theyre pilot wannabes...
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Carl on August 30, 2002, 03:52:46 pm
i've never heard pilots. always drivers. ask jeff gordon, he'll tell you it's drivers. and i say so, so there.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Ulundel on August 30, 2002, 04:38:55 pm
You people just don't get it. It's official. THEY...ARE...CALLED...PILOTS

I'd say there are two different things: racing and F1 racing. Well hell look at the cocpits, does these look like car systems to you.

Oh yes, if you haven't noticed it, the commentators are calling them pilots :p :D

So here you go. End of story. PERIOD!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 05:41:04 pm
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
You people just don't get it. It's official. THEY...ARE...CALLED...PILOTS

I'd say there are two different things: racing and F1 racing. Well hell look at the cocpits, does these look like car systems to you.

Oh yes, if you haven't noticed it, the commentators are calling them pilots :p :D

So here you go. End of story. PERIOD!



1) F1 racing they go a lot faster and the cars sound like mosquitos, but they still are DRIVING, not FLYING.

2)Just cause the commentators call them pilots doesn't mean they are


:D   GO CARL!!! i agree with him
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 06:08:20 pm
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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
You people just don't get it. It's official. THEY...ARE...CALLED...PILOTS

I'd say there are two different things: racing and F1 racing. Well hell look at the cocpits, does these look like car systems to you.

Oh yes, if you haven't noticed it, the commentators are calling them pilots :p :D

So here you go. End of story. PERIOD!


Being offical doesnt mean its correct, just that their foolish.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Anaz on August 30, 2002, 06:33:29 pm
give me a very official looking website that calls them pilots, and I'll believe you. Until then I'm listning to nascar calling them drivers...
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 06:35:32 pm
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GO CARL!!! i agree with him


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give me a very official looking website that calls them pilots, and I'll believe you. Until then I'm listning to nascar calling them drivers...



AMeN BROTHA!!

Sorry, whatchin oprah, but yeah, seriously
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Sandwich on August 30, 2002, 08:04:32 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


:rolleyes:

And the admin says it's pilots, then it IS PILOTS. End of story.

:p


Exactly, so drivers it is! :D

You got a problem with that? Before you start anything, just remember that I'm the one who speaks softly and carries a freakin' huge gun. ;7 :ha:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 08:40:10 pm
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Exactly, so drivers it is! You got a problem with that? Before you start anything, just remember that I'm the one who speaks softly and carries a freakin' huge gun.    


I'm with sandwhich, 150%
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 08:45:26 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar


I'm with sandwhich, 150%


100% is the maximum.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Levyathan on August 30, 2002, 10:17:40 pm
You're a genius.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 30, 2002, 10:34:01 pm
nuh uh, get cp in here....

u can have more than 100% of something... like um.... a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, 150% of 1 pb n' j sandwhich is one and a half pb n' j sandwhiches.

I am with sandwhich :D 150%
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Zeronet on August 30, 2002, 10:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by Levyathan
You're a genius.


I know :D :rolleyes:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 10:48:10 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
nuh uh, get cp in here....

u can have more than 100% of something... like um.... a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, 150% of 1 pb n' j sandwhich is one and a half pb n' j sandwhiches.

I am with sandwhich :D 150%


yeah it's possible..

say you are supposed to take 2 apples and you take 4, you're taking 200% of what you're supposed to

...i dunno :D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 10:48:44 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich


Exactly, so drivers it is! :D

You got a problem with that? Before you start anything, just remember that I'm the one who speaks softly and carries a freakin' huge gun. ;7 :ha:


Sandwich is a very intelligent guy!  


...and he has a VERY big gun!
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Levyathan on August 30, 2002, 10:57:18 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
say you are supposed to take 2 apples and you take 4, you're taking 200% of what you're supposed to


Actually, a better example would be the one of prices. If something costs $2 and at some other point in time it changes to $8, it would be costing 300% more.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Stealth on August 30, 2002, 11:00:21 pm
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Originally posted by Levyathan


Actually, a better example would be the one of prices. If something costs $2 and at some other point in time it changes to $8, it would be costing 300% more.


very true

100% + could be applied to a lot of things

like, he's a 200% jerk, etc. ;) just kididng
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Levyathan on August 30, 2002, 11:07:30 pm
The point here is that whoever said he was 150% with Sandwich was wrong. He can't be anything more than completely with Sandwich, thus he can only be 100% with him. There's no such things as completely and a half.
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 31, 2002, 12:24:52 am
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

 no no no no no !!!

you are wrong so very wrong that you have started lieing to yourself and are beggining to beleive it.

that and you are missing the point waaaay too much
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Ulundel on August 31, 2002, 01:44:07 am
OK, OK, they are drivers. HAPPY NOW?!

(It's just that where I live, everyone call them pilots)
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Knight Templar on August 31, 2002, 02:04:12 am
welcome into the fold :)
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Sandwich on August 31, 2002, 05:00:21 am
*shakes head and sighs*

You guys.... :lol:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Redfang on August 31, 2002, 05:18:53 am
:lol::lol::lol:
 
Drivers, they are, or at least they should be.
 
Nice thread... :lol::rolleyes::lol:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: CP5670 on August 31, 2002, 10:33:59 am
This just got me wondering, is there any situation in real life where a percentage containing complex numbers or quaternions comes up? Or even transcendental reals? :D

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And the admin says it's pilots, then it IS PILOTS. End of story.


But two other admins say they are drivers, so they are drivers. :D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Sandwich on August 31, 2002, 12:56:03 pm
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Originally posted by CP5670
This just got me wondering, is there any situation in real life where a percentage containing complex numbers or quaternions comes up? Or even transcendental reals? :D


:wtf:

*looks up things on Atomica*

[q]quaternion (kwətûr'nēən) , in mathematics, a type of higher complex number first suggested by Sir William R. Hamilton in 1843. A complex number is a number of the form a+bi when a and b are real numbers and i is the so-called imaginary unit defined by the equation i2=-1. The rules for operating with complex numbers are simply those of operating with the polynomial a+bx except that i2 is replaced by -1 whenever it occurs. A quaternion, an extension of this concept, is a number of the form a+bi+cj+dk when a, b, c, and d are real numbers and i, j, and k are imaginary units defined by the equations i2=j2=k2=ijk=-1. Quaternions, as well as vectors and tensors (later outgrowths of the concept of quaternions), have many important applications in mechanics.[/q]

Well in that case, probably not. :D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Gortef on September 01, 2002, 02:21:27 pm
Pilots or Drivers... at least people like eachothers in F1 world :D

http://www.saunalahti.fi/jylppy69/f1.jpg (http://www.saunalahti.fi/jylppy69/f1.jpg)

:p
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on September 01, 2002, 05:43:19 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
You got a problem with that? Before you start anything, just remember that I'm the one who speaks softly and carries a freakin' huge gun. ;7 :ha:


I'm out of range, so :ha:!

:D
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Sandwich on September 01, 2002, 06:00:00 pm
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Originally posted by Styxx


I'm out of range, so :ha:!

:D


I have... connections... in Brasil. :devil:
Title: Toyota's gone crazy
Post by: Styxx on September 01, 2002, 06:44:05 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I have... connections... in Brasil. :devil:


Erm... :nervous: