Learned something AMAZING today

[bleeb]

I thought you were going to say that 0.9999... != 1.

 

[maziwanka]

that mathworld link is awesome. mathworld is awesome.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Heck, who'd have even believed something as simple as Cos(x) = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ...
if they hadn't learned how to prove that result in calculus.

That's the expansion for sine, btw (I would know, I just gave a lab assignment to explore this with Maple). Remember, cosine is an even function so the above could not be true.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: oboeguy

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Heck, who'd have even believed something as simple as Cos(x) = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ...
if they hadn't learned how to prove that result in calculus.

That's the expansion for sine, btw (I would know, I just gave a lab assignment to explore this with Maple). Remember, cosine is an even function so the above could not be true.

Oh duh.. I hate when I do that... I switch them all the time. But, I never stopped to think about the even/odd thing... that'll keep me from ever doing that again. Thanks!

 

two and two equals don't fvck around

 

[MournSanity]

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