When I did MathCounts, they referred to us as Mathletes. We had teams, and coaches, and math meets...

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...looking back, that's pretty much a junior-high-school apex of geekdom, isn't it?

Cause y'know, I could just see Agamemnon sending in Achilles for a little web surfing... nothing could make the Thessalonians fold like a good google.

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Banazir

I was on my high school's math team and we would practice math problems on a weekly basis for months before we went to Regionals. And, we went to State all four years, except being a public school we would also be beat out by the math and science academies.
Severn didn't field a large enough team to really go to any of the major meets or events, but I joined the Severna Park team once. All I remember is being very pleased to have tied the town math jock, Sandeep Singhal, once or twice with 3 out of 6 on the monthly Math Team exams. Some of those analytic geometry questions were tricky! Many's the time I could have had 4 and instead got 3 or even 2 due to a silly mental block on one "easy" part.

You know, I can't remember now whether I ever beat Sandeep's score. I think I might have once, though he would have outdone me at least 4-5 times for that one.

At any rate, it made me driven enough to seek membership in Tau Beta Pi (the Engineering Honor Society), take a math sci double major, and get my M.S.Eng. in a concurrent 5-year BS/MS program (that I did in 4 years). So, I guess it can't be all bad.

On a similar note... while I was an undergrad, I was part of the math club, I was a math major for a couple years, and we democratically decided to name the club Mathletes. Personally, I thought it was dorky, then again any name you give to a math club is going to have some dorkiness regardless. I nominated Mathaholics Anonymous; it got a couple votes.

Every time I read The Chronicles of Prydain I chuckle at the name "Math, son of Mathonwy" (the High King of Prydain).

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Banazir

*grins*

I was sixth in the state when I was 13. And the best girl in NJ. And although I did well with engineering team competitions in high school... it was never quite the same. And now... ah, well.

Nah, I think it'd be more accurate to say the sequel will be a second-order derivative ;)

The Ring 2... So is that a sequel to the American remake, or is it a remake of the Japanese sequel?

*ponders*

Yep. There was a Ring 2. I think I saw it about 3-4 years ago. It had some scary bits but wasn't as good as the original.

And this is indeed Boomer! *luvs BSG*

If the original was derivative, the sequel is... integral?

Nah, you just bump the lower index of the sum by one and differentiate normally.