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Originally posted by: sciencewhiz
e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0
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THAT would have been more elegant. Was always fascinated by Euler during my days in Complex Analysis; in truth, even until this day.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
how is that nerdy? that's basic knowledge for high school math.

Prolly nerdy for a 9-10th grader, but all of you people who graduated from high school should already know this as common knowledge. If not, what the hell did you do during high school?


anyways, very nicely done though. Since a lot of high schooler's trick or treat, it'll be nice to have that outside ahaha.
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christ what high school did you go to? Harvard's feeder school or something? Since when did all high school graduates know anything at all about calculus? My senior class had 2 calculus classes, so 60 out of 400+ would know what that formula meant.

 
Originally posted by: PoPPeR
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
how is that nerdy? that's basic knowledge for high school math.

Prolly nerdy for a 9-10th grader, but all of you people who graduated from high school should already know this as common knowledge. If not, what the hell did you do during high school?


anyways, very nicely done though. Since a lot of high schooler's trick or treat, it'll be nice to have that outside ahaha.
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christ what high school did you go to? Harvard's feeder school or something? Since when did all high school graduates know anything at all about calculus? My senior class had 2 calculus classes, so 60 out of 400+ would know what that formula meant.
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same for me. NYC here. i'm guessing other states/suburbs have a more advanced education program than here in NY.
 
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
how is that nerdy? that's basic knowledge for high school math.

Prolly nerdy for a 9-10th grader, but all of you people who graduated from high school should already know this as common knowledge. If not, what the hell did you do during high school?


anyways, very nicely done though. Since a lot of high schooler's trick or treat, it'll be nice to have that outside ahaha.
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You had to take calculus in our school to learn that. To take calculus, you had to have all kinds of recommendations and whatnot. Hardly common knowledge.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
how is that nerdy? that's basic knowledge for high school math.

Prolly nerdy for a 9-10th grader, but all of you people who graduated from high school should already know this as common knowledge. If not, what the hell did you do during high school?


anyways, very nicely done though. Since a lot of high schooler's trick or treat, it'll be nice to have that outside ahaha.
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You had to take calculus in our school to learn that. To take calculus, you had to have all kinds of recommendations and whatnot. Hardly common knowledge.
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Same.
 
I work at a LAN gaming center... I really wish I'd taken it upon myself to make some cool pumpkins like the ones I've been seeing online lately...

The Doom one would probably fit in the best where I worked.. I think that was a post yesterday I saw.
 
Originally posted by: sniperruff
Originally posted by: PoPPeR
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
how is that nerdy? that's basic knowledge for high school math.

Prolly nerdy for a 9-10th grader, but all of you people who graduated from high school should already know this as common knowledge. If not, what the hell did you do during high school?


anyways, very nicely done though. Since a lot of high schooler's trick or treat, it'll be nice to have that outside ahaha.
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christ what high school did you go to? Harvard's feeder school or something? Since when did all high school graduates know anything at all about calculus? My senior class had 2 calculus classes, so 60 out of 400+ would know what that formula meant.
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same for me. NYC here. i'm guessing other states/suburbs have a more advanced education program than here in NY.
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I think it's just the rich suburb areas.. Since my upbringing was different, I thought a lot of people already took calc in high school, because when I went to UCSD, most everyone already had. Then again, my major is EE..so.... I apologize if that came out snobbish. I never intended it to be that way. I'm just some ignorant student 😛 ignore me.



-----optional crap to read about my retarded high school---------------

800 students in my class of 2000. there were 4 high school calc teachers that taught calc for 5 periods out of the day. Each class had an avg of about 30 or so students. about 3/4's of the students at least took calcAB. My yr had a 100% passrate for both AB and BC tests.

the school was in an affluent area. Next to the high school was this community full of rich people that lived in multimillion dollar homes. I went to UCSD, where 41 students from my high school went to that graduating year. 40 (estimate. my friend in UCLA said 50, but i doubt it) went to UCLA. 30 went to UCBerkeley. the rest went to UCI, UCR, CalPoly SLO/Pomona. Half of the students were from very well off families. They took a statistic, and 87% went to 4 yr universities. the rest went to local community colleges, millitary, etc.

the rest went to some private school blah. I hated my high school, since it was way too egotistical in terms of "smartness". They coudln't choose a valedictorian, so they chose 20 valedictorians. WTF. So there were no valedictorian speech. If you didn't take calc, you were considered a dumbass. So a lot of students competed to get into as many AP's as possible. that was my stupid high school. Get in a lot of AP classes, and you're in the "in" group now..oooo.

And it wasn't a private school. It's just a school that happens to be in a really affluent area, as is the case in a lot of well-off communities in US.


Fok my high school. I wish it'll burn to hell.

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anyway's..how was everyoen's halloween? 🙂

 
Originally posted by: TheLonelyPhoenix
Originally posted by: cirthix
its not the definition of the derivative, its an equation used to fine the derivative of a function
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no, its the definition. no :cookie: for you.

go review your calc books.
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sorry man, but the definition of a derivative is the slope of the line tangent to a given curve at any given point, what the newton quotient does is take the slope of the secant line, then takes the limit of that slope as those points get infinitestimally close, effectively giving you the slope of the tangent line.

i'm sending this to u with a pm, as you'll probably never see it in the thread
 
Originally posted by: cirthix
sorry man, but the definition of a derivative is the slope of the line tangent to a given curve at any given point, what the newton quotient does is take the slope of the secant line, then takes the limit of that slope as those points get infinitestimally close, effectively giving you the slope of the tangent line.

i'm sending this to u with a pm, as you'll probably never see it in the thread
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The limit of the difference quotient is the mathematical definition of the derivative of f(x). In Calculus texts - and I have unfortunately/fortunately read a number of them: Larson, Anton, Finney, Stewart, etc - one often finds the phrase "the derivative of a function f(x) is defined as".

The "slope of the tangential line" above is one verbal definition of a derivative. I prefer to think of it as the instantaneous rate of change of a function; but, regardless of preference, there are a plethora of verbal definitions of a derivative. The limit shown on the pumpkin is the mathematical definition.
 
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