I took almost the full three hours for the final tonight. I neither threw up or passed out* - although it was a close call ( Read more... )

( Enter a Hungry Catta )

I will say this about algebra ... knowing it sure makes getting some of the math references that Heinlein likes to pepper his books with easier.

I now get the difficulty of taking the square root of minus one. Sure you can do it - but what does a onei give you in relation to the real world?

As of this moment in time ... I currently have a "C" in Algebra!!!

Sure by the skin of my teeth (1.8 points) but still it's mine!

Ok... we're back to log again. Whoot ( Read more... )

RableRousingProffessor: Ok it's Spring Break next week. Please try and do some homework and don't come back injured or Pregnant.

Bush sucks at Algebra too!

From answers.com

Word Origins: algebra

from Arabic
This word originated in Iraq

In about the year 830, Mohammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi of Baghdad wrote a book with the Arabic title Hisab al-jabr w'al-muqabala, which may be translated as Science of the Reunion and the Opposition. The reunion, or al-jabar, became our ( Read more... )

This is for all the *Mathies* out there.

A 10 foot bamboo stem breaks during a high wind, the top part of the break falls so that it's tip rests on the ground 3 feet from the base of the stem (forming a triangle). At what height on the stem did the break occur? Hint: use pythagorean theorem.This totally has me stumped as my math skillz are ( Read more... )

Last night at the end of class, the little girl (really she's quite petite and probably not an hour over 18) who was sitting in front of me turned around with a very serious expression and hesitantly asked:

"So um, you remeber when that ice cream survey came around, and like you told that girl you didn't eat ice cream .....so um are you like ( Read more... )

Mine was filled with scientific notation and polynomials.


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