• Question: what is the longest sum youve used

    Asked by 69er to Steph on 13 Mar 2012.
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      Stephanie Tomlinson answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Probably the Navier Stokes Equation in Cylindrical Co-ordinates.

      I’ll let you google that!

      You use it to determine find out how a fluid (liquid or gas) flows.

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  • Photo: Dan

    Dan commented on :

    I had to do that once as well, agreed. It literally can take several sheets of paper even with small writing to write the whole thing out properly…

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    Matt commented on :

    Some of the relativistic and quantum mechanics equations are pretty terrifying…I’m kind of glad I can’t remember them anymore! They had a nasty habit that you could write them out with about five letters, but as soon as you actually wanted to use them,, they suddenly expanded into dozens and dozens of separate expressions.