Acst151 (2 Viewers)

[pLuvia]

Did Shepherd still teach u guys for the first bit of the year? I <3 him. I'll have a look for my orientation assignment thing if u still haven't done it (if it is still the same)

We have Pollard for the first few weeks don't we onebytwo?

 

[onebytwo]

We have Pollard for the first few weeks don't we onebytwo?

i recall it was for the first ?9? weeks, before he goes to ?siberia?

 

[onebytwo]

todays lecture was exruciating. i could barely understand what pollard was doing on the computer, he went throguh it so quickly. so here i am left to understand the examples by fiddling on excel. did anyone understand why we couldnt use excel 2003 or xp for something?

 

[weiwern28]

todays lecture was exruciating. i could barely understand what pollard was doing on the computer, he went throguh it so quickly. so here i am left to understand the examples by fiddling on excel. did anyone understand why we couldnt use excel 2003 or xp for something?

I don't think it actually meant that we couldn't use later versions of excel but there might be a potential for errors since the spreadsheets were created using 97 or 2000 (can't remember). Additionally, it also stated that there might be a bug with xp or 2003 generating odd random numbers (greater than 1 or something) and you can just test this by generating a list of random numbers and checking.