User:Apn7

About me

Abraham Ng’hwani

                            Address:
                                           P. O. Box 91105
                                           Gilbert Addoms
                                           1368 Campus Drive
                                           Durham 27708, NC.
                                        
                                           
                                 
                                Mob:  1 (919) 806 6403 
                             E-mail:  apn7@duke.edu

Childhood

I grew up in Tanzania, East Africa. Situated at Latitude: 6º00´ South of the Equator, Longitude: 35º00´ East of Greenwich.

I love my land, I love my people:)

How to Pronounce my name

Okay, my first name is not challenging at all. Just say 'ay-bruh-ham'. Or if you want the sophisticated version, then say 'ae-bra-ham'.

Now, my last name is kind of hard. But let's try it out. Here's what I have for its pronounciation: 'ngh-nhwae-ni'. Most important, hold your breath before you start pronouncing it, then breath out when you reach the '-nhwae-' part, then just finish up with '-ni-'.

Education

• Undergraduate at The Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University.

• International Baccalaureate Diploma.

• Life.

• Farming.

Interests

• Hiking, biking

• Food, Cooking :)

• Guitar

• Real 'Football' (Americans call it Soccer!)

• Speed Hunting

• And so much more!

Favorite MATLAB Demonstrations

Among the many interesting demos, I like the Format function because:

You can command it using such commands as: format short, format short e, format short g, format long, format long e, format long g, format rat and format hex just to mention a few. Each one of these commands have a different way of displaying numbers on MATLAB depending on what the user likes.

The coolest part of this is that, you may have a very long decimal figure like 0.00000089189619861363342628829990001111, but using the command 'format short e', MATLAB understands the actual value of the figure, but displays the figure as 8.9189e-007!

It's pretty sweet:)

--Apn7 08:33, 24 September 2010 (EDT)

External Links

For now, I just want to share with you this article about The Grand Challenges of Engineering, please take some time and explore, and, enjoy!

Getting Solar off the Ground, Lee Billings, Seed Magazine, created July 28 2009, accessed August 24 2009.