Comments | super_elmo: Oh, how things have changed! The world has become a good place, and Elmo's doing math.

super_elmo

Oh, how things have changed! The world has become a good place, and Elmo's doing math.

Oct 08, 2005 21:29

Earthquake kills more than 3,000 in S. Asia [AP Wire]. Special triple-chocolate brownie cake points (a la just_juxtaposed's recipe) go to India for unexpected generosity to their long-time enemies. Let us follow their example.

What I learned today:1) The instantaneous rate of change for any real x-value a in the function f(x)=bx^2 when b is a real number is 2ba ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

ephemral October 9 2005, 03:11:10 UTC

Lucky that you get to eat calculus.

Calculus has been eating me all day. I'm finding the areas of shapes defined by polar coordinates. Ewwie. Well, I'd LIKE to be finding them. Anyway. Everytime I try, I seem to be missing a factor of pi, or I have a factor of pi too many. Or things cancel out such that the area of the cardiod minus the clover thingee is zero, when it really isn't. :(

ENJOY CALCULUS WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

super_elmo October 10 2005, 20:34:39 UTC

Whoosh.

I just love that sound that makes as it goes over my head.

Area equals length times width, baby. That's as far as I'm going.

ruiemaria October 9 2005, 20:47:37 UTC

I'm so glad I don't have to do that anymore.

And you know what? I never should've learned it in the first place, it was so worthless. :-)

super_elmo October 10 2005, 20:41:46 UTC

Meh, some of us go to school for fun.

ruiemaria October 10 2005, 22:31:03 UTC

I went to school for fun too, I just would never go back for that kind of fun again...:)

super_elmo October 12 2005, 20:45:20 UTC

Come to think of it, neither would I. The food here makes everything not worth it.

brainie October 10 2005, 10:38:00 UTC

Are you cheating on your homework via LJ?

super_elmo October 12 2005, 20:45:38 UTC

Me? Never!

I'm smart for real.