Re^2: Project Euler (a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems)

[rhesa]

Your sig made me laugh so hard! That was about as funny as this cartoon :-)

Update: Seriously though, I would be disappointed if people would downvote you, just because you admit to having a hard time grasping mathematics. I _have_ studied maths (for over 7 years), but I must say that for the majority of my programming work it's completely irrelevant. Text processing, web page generation, database interfacing, report generation etc. are all very common tasks we perform with Perl that don't require maths at all, but are still extremely valuable to our customers. I take enough pride in creating something that my clients want and appreciate. They rarely (if ever!) admire me for my mathematical prowess, but do for solving their problems.

[ikegami]

You're assuming the parent poster wished to be anonymous. The account "Anonymous Monk" is a misnomer, because it's not only used by people who wish to be anonymous. Some people are just too lazy to create an account, or don't want to create an account for for other reasons. I've posted on a number of boards on which I have no account. I typically sign those posts because anonimity is not my intention.

[jdporter]

Point is, there's really not much to be gained by posting anonymously if you're also going to say who you are, because if people don't like your post, they'll easily find ways of expressing disapproval on your non-anonymous account. (Unfortunate, but true.)

[ikegami]

It seems I didn't make myself clear. I was saying anonimity is not the only reason to post as Anonymous Monk. Who says this person has a "non-anonymous" account? Signed Anonymous Monk *is* his non-anonymous account.