Thats the one!
Not sure what was wrong with the Give Way sign, but thats definately the sign that I was wondering about.
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I've never actually seen one.
To me it looks like the next frame in an action sequence following on from "No Motor Vehicles".
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Life is complex; it has real and imaginary parts.
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Extraordinary. So there is no general prohibition on carrying explosives around in the boot, only in places where that sign is displayed.
I'd have thought they would be banned in town centres, car parks, ouside schools,police stations, for a start.
And on entering a no-explosives zone, I stop and dump them on the pavement?
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Explosives are pretty safe and not liable to explode. I'd think the petrol in your tank is much more hazardous.
I once helped unload explosives from a lorry (a civilian contractor's ordinary lorry) whilst a squaddie. I was stunned to see that it had to display a Hazchem sign stating what it was carrying. This was 20+ years ago.
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Often seen at the entrance to a tunnel!
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Life is complex; it has real and imaginary parts.
Reminds me of an interview question we used to ask graduate mechanical engineers. "What are the square roots of i, where i=sqrt(-1)?"
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I dread to think what you were engineering to need to know that. Did Escher do the designs?
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The usual place complex numbers turned up is when you look at the theory of Fourier transforms. We used them quite extensively to convert time history data, acquired using strain gauges, accelerometer, microphones, and on one project anenometers into frequency domain data. Although you can write the transforms in terms sums of sine and cosine functions, it is much neater and easier to manipulate in the form of one sum of complex exponentials.
As we were quite a poor (financially) group, we would write our own software for this kind of task, as the luxury of buying off the shelf software, and not having to do the sums was not justifiable. I think the approach payed dividends though, because the engineers who had contributed to the data acquisition software development were much more "aware" of what was possible and sensible in terms of data acquisition and the subsequent analysis.
Some of the group's software did continue in development and was sold commercially for a time.
Number_Cruncher
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