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General Discussion / Re: Mathematics Help Thread
« on: May 18, 2024, 10:43:41 am »
根据乘法表口诀,三六一十八, so, I guess 3*6=18
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Interesting - rather than "about 1000 dollars per year", what is it in terms of hours of minimum wage where you are? Or in terms of, how does "100 dollars per month" compare to say your monthly rent/house payment, or how much groceries for a month typically cost? How does "1000 dollars a year" compare to a starting salary once you'd graduate? (When I graduated college, my starting salary for one year was basically the cost of two years of my college; That is, my private college cost about $25000 a year*, and my first salary after graduating was about $50000/year.)
I never like simple currency conversion; I prefer comparing to actual cost of living things.
For example, where I live and my family situation, our housing costs (house payment, utilities) costs about 2.5x what we spend on groceries for my family.Spoiler: * (click to show/hide)
If you study abroad here in ShanDong University , the dormitory our school provided for you would be very nice , you will own a TV , a washing machine or some other useful furniture for each room . However we do not have that high treatment .
That's a less-than-amazing arrangement. One would expect they would treat their own at least as well as others. I would feel uncomfortable as a foreign student if I knew I had better accomodations than the domestic students. I imagine it can engender resentment. My school has a lot of international students and they shuffle them into the same housing system as everyone else.
My understanding is that sort of thing isn't all that strange in China. Foreign students and workers, especially Westerners, get preferential treatment and have more favourable bargaining positions than their Chinese counterparts do. Not sure why in the case of students.
Whoa, lets get too fond of our current education system now. The vast swathe of americans are sitting there making memes about how eager they are to forget basic algebra.Why?
Which is silly, because the english answer to that is "planant" :VWhat does the ''planant" mean , I can't undestand it , does it mean the '' planet'' due to its pronunciation similarity?
misspelling something to make an obvious pun is like tuesday in this language
Today I took a national English competition , and here's an IQ question in it:Are all tests in China like this? Like I'd have probably answered "giant" too if I even realized it's a trick question (though that was probably obvious from context...)
What is the largest "ant" in the world?
The answer is "elephant" , not "giant" .
5 mates in one bedroom, or 5 people sharing a common dwelling?
Dang that's a lot of roommates, you in a house or a barracks?
Wow, no wonder people are screaming about how hard it is to repay college loans these days. When I graduated, I felt I was pushing my limits with my loan-to-income ratio of only 50% - but it was at an interest rate of 6.5%, so I have no tears for those screaming about the interest rates a few years ago.