Lester French

Associate Prof. of Applied Mathematics & Engineering at the University of Maine at Augusta & RSU22 Director. I'm interested in STEM education, music, & movies.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@itsm_hope 8

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@farman4x 4x + 9 = 121;
4x = 112;
x = 28.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@testament Happy Birthday to the voice of Testament! Chuck Billy!🥳🤘🏼

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In May 1944, 23-year-old Phyllis Latour jumped out of a US bomber and parachuted into occupied Normandy, France. Her mission was to gather information about Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. Once on the ground, she quickly buried her parachute and clothes, and began a secret mission that would last four months, pretending to be a poor teenage French girl.

Phyllis had been trained by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE). She learned how to send secret messages in Morse code, how to fix wireless radios, and how to spy without being caught. She also went through tough physical training in the Scottish highlands. Phyllis wanted to get revenge on the Nazis who had killed her godfather.

Phyllis said, “The men who had been sent before me were caught and killed. I was chosen because I would be less suspicious.” She would ride a bicycle through the region, pretending to sell soap, and secretly pass messages to the British about German locations. She acted like a country girl chatting with German soldiers to avoid raising suspicion. She moved from place to place to stay hidden and often slept in forests finding her own food.

Phyllis also came up with a clever way to hide her secret codes. She wrote them on a piece of silk and pricked it with a pin each time she used a code. She kept it hidden inside a hair tie. Once when the Germans briefly detained her and searched her she took out the hair tie and let her hair fall, showing she had nothing to hide. In the summer of 1944, Phyllis sent 135 coded messages helping Allied bombers find German targets.

After the war, Phyllis married and moved to New Zealand. Her children didn’t know about her wartime service until 2000, when her oldest son found out online. This hero passed on October 7, 2023. May she rest In peace.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@impulselabel @freeformjazzy They are all classics - but my favorite is Thembi.

#PharoahSanders

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@gremor @pickover If that was the intent of the author, then that should most certainly be written, as that does not follow the order of operations. Grouping symbols remove all ambiguity.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@pickover To answer the question that was asked, I think it would be less than 1%. This is primarily because approximately 40% of the global population is under age 15, but includes other factors, including educational access and attainment.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@pickover For the second equation, I would prefer it written as x + (x * x) = ? This avoids having to rely on the ambiguity of the author’s intent and order of operations and providing the clarity of grouping symbols. The solution is {12}.

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@BBGreatMoments Pedro

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@its_mizuko_ 18

[MLB @MLB]

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[Lester French @lesfrench]

@MLB @Topps That’s a cool 1976 Topps replica!

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@Arden_2210 I’m not a genius, but I do see that it is a quadratic equation.

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@Arden_2210 {-5, 4}

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@TheSports_Shift Tim Raines
Vlad Guerrero
Andre Dawson
Ellis Valentine
Steve Rogers
Jeff Reardon

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@Hot_Pepper76 9, many of them multiple times.

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@BBGreatMoments Greg Luzinski
Frank Thomas
Bo Jackson

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

Sonny Rollins 🙏🏿

[Lester French @lesfrench]

@BassMagOnline Oh no! An electric bass! Call out the National Guard! Bobby’s gone electric!

[Lester French @lesfrench]

#mathhumor

[Math Lady Hazel 🇦🇷 @mathladyhazel]

This math joke.