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snalin:
Yeah, it's pretty awesome when you take an infinite series, do some magic, and end up with a neat little polynomial. Maths is* sexy!

I'm not doing any maths just now, but next semester I'll be doing category theory and introduction to logic, so that'll be fun.


Maths is, right? I mean, maths is written in plural form, but it is still just a single thing, right? Or is it maths are sexy?

Gridgm:
a strange thing happened halfway through my math course where i stopped being able to solve maths sums unless they had variables in them, i checked with some of my other friends in the course and they agreed similar things occurred

for example

--- Code: ---7 + 5 = x, solve for x
--- End code ---
is easy

however


--- Code: ---7 + 5 =
--- End code ---
i would stare at for a couple of minutes then either insert the x myself and solve it or get out a calculator

Jace:
I don't want to study related rates stuff right now, it isn't that I can't do this, it's just that I don't like word problems that much. After this I should go over the next section, local linear approximation; differentials.  But I'm just not able to focus right now.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: snalin on 20 Oct 2013, 05:48 ---Maths is, right? I mean, maths is written in plural form, but it is still just a single thing, right? Or is it maths are sexy?

--- End quote ---

Is.  "Maths" is not the plural of "math"; it's a different abbreviation of "mathematics".  Many words end in s without being plural.

Jace:
Okay I'm making a mistake somewhere here.

Related rates. Circle area increasing at rate of 6mi^2/hr. Find radius increase when area is 9mi^2
A = pi*r^2
sqrt(A/pi) = r

Then I find the derivative, but I'm fucking that part up.

I end up with 1/[2*sqrt(pi*da\dt)] = dr\dt

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