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whattttttttt?????????????????
junior high algebra by any chance????
you can PM me with questions as well, ive been through Cal III
whattttttttt?????????????????
junior high algebra by any chance????
I might have to ask for your help later on...
you are my master
anything you say
much thanks to all those who offered and helped. just so you know im gonna bug you for more help later...college is hard and im not that bright...
Isn't Travis2 the resident math geek?
This probably won't work, but post a problem or two with which you are having problems grasping, and let's see if someone can explain in such a way that the light bulb goes on. It will give the people who comprehend algebra a chance to develop their writing skills.
FYI, lots of people have huge mental roadblocks when it comes to mathematics. You are not alone. My brother, who is a junior high school principle (and has a Master's degree and is working on a Ph.D.), failed college algebra twice; it was the last course he completed to fulfill his B.A. degree requirements.
And then there is my ex-wife. I've seen horses that have a better grasp of math.
Last edited by Guru of Nothing; 09-02-2005 at 07:43 PM.
Ever considered politics as a career choice?
I suck at math. Everytime the kids have a math question, especially my oldest, my standard answer is, "Go ask your father."
However, I think it takes a certain skill to teach math. I took Algebra in 9th grade AND had a tutor and flunked it. Both teacher and tutor sucked at explaining it to me. I took it again in 10th grade withOUT a tutor and got As and Bs. He just knew how to explain it well.
However, I couldn't do Algebra now to save my life
Letters...in Math? This isn't the ing alphabet.
Fractions are merely equivalence classes of subsets of the direct product of the smallest set containing of the empty set and every set that can be constructed from the empty set by taking the union of the set and the set containing the set with itself, by saying two elements are equivalent if and only if the product of the first component of the first element and the second componet of the second element is equal to the product of the second component of the first element and the first component of the second element, where the empty set is the set that has nothing in it. Hope that cleared things up.
I have no idea what you just said.
For order of operations just remember this phrase:
Please Execute My Dumb-Ass Sister
1. Parentheses (i.e., 5 * (6-2) = 5 * 4 = 20)
2. Exponents (i.e, (4+1)^2 = 5^2 = 25)
3. Multiplication (i.e., 5 * 6 - 2 = 30 - 2 = 28)
4. Division (i.e., 30/5 - 2 = 6 - 2 = 4)
5. Addition
6. Subtraction
I wish I could do math. I can barely do basic arithmatic.
Math RULES!!!!!!!
It's simple....
you take the empty set and set that to 0
The empty set exists by the Axiom of Separation
you take the union of the empty set and the set containing the empty set ....
.. 0 U {0} = 1
1 exists by the Axiom of Union
ie, 0={}
1 = {0}
2 = 1 U {1} = {0} U {{0}} = {0,{0}} = {0,1}
3 = 2 U {2} = {0,1,2}
4 = 3 U {3} = {0,1,2,3}
...
The Axiom of Infinity guarantees you can make a set by continuing with this process, and the smallest set that satisfies this is the natural numbers N={0,1,2,3,...}. Then N X N = {(0,0), (0,1), (0,2), ..., (1,0), (1,1), (1,2), ...., (2,0), (2,1), (2,2), ...}
Then you define the integers Z={0,-1,1,-2,2,-3,3,...} as equivalence classes of N X N equivalent in that for any (a,b) in N X N, (a,b) === (c,d) if and only if
a + d = b + c ... ie, (a,b) represents a - b.
Then you define the fractions Q = Z x (Z - (0,0)) as equivalence classes of members such that (p,q) = (s,t) if and only if p * t = s * q ... (p,q) represents p/q
Now my head hurts ...thanks
You are the NBADan of Math.
You're the NBADan of making fun of NBADan.
PM Baseline Bum he seems to be a programmer so he could help you with practically anything math related.
Guru, I'm an engineer...baseline is a mathematician (I think)
Bandit is also an engineer.
sone, just post your problems in a thread and someone will take a look...
my feet smell, one arm is longer than the other, im going blind in one eye, my hair is falling out, my back hurts, when i pee it smells like an ashtray, when i climb stairs i aways fart, if i sneeze i pee a little, i dont have next monts rent, my dog bit me and took my pancakes, my roommate always sleeps with my dates, and i pulled a hangnail all the way to my elbow today. can anyone help?
actually i already got the help i needed but i will write your names down and hunt you down like cattle when i need help again. the lights upstairs are very very dim...
Programmers are some of the worst mathematicians out there.
How come I don't know about this??
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