Math.
My personal Waterloo, and I have the stories.
Curse you, Euclid!

(But I can spell isosceles.)

i was good with math and geo.
probably alg ii in school

but i am an electronics tech. had to do LOTS of math that i had never done like imaginary numbers when i hired on so had to figure it out myself.

about to retire and the math skills are long gone.
i do or did work with "rain man" literally. the guy could calculate LOG's, interest rates, formulas, you name it. in his head.

Yup. That's one of many things that sent me into metallurgy. Less math, more "heat it hotter, hit it harder, hope it works..."

(not quite, but compared to some of our other engineer kin, we're kind of simple folk)

i got thru Diff Eq unscathed but it was hit/miss in the beginning. the professor was from Iraq and he spoke so fast and muttered. his handwriting was chit too. my mom's cousin sent him an anonymous email telling him he was losing his entire class. hahah..

the poor professor apologies and slowed it down. we killed it.

to this day i only remember newton's law of cooling being a differential equation. what, why, who? i forget everything. never used it again.

Like Jethro Bodine, I can do my gazintas. 5 gazintas 10 twice and so on.

We use a lot of weird math in aerial photography. The computer program does the hard part, but we have to understand the answer, and tell it how we want a project set up to run for the data a client wants. Aerial triangulation makes my head hurt.

Last thing I took in college was business calculus. Failed every test and made a C

For me it is the infamous partial differential equation problem for "the vibrating string"...

i am 90% sure therum 2-13 is "vertical angles are congruent " (im not googling it, to not ruin my fantasy)

I took mushrooms and did Calculus in college once

My professor wrote the book. He was the author of the text book. Maybe it was the fact that I wasn't paying proper attention, but even when I asked questions, I felt like he knew the material, but wasn't good at teaching/explaining it. It was probably me.

When I sat for the Certified Public Accounting exam in 83 I could do a good deal of math in my head. It's amazing how far your head can stretch when you use it.

I quickly approximate better than "most" because of that.

But I can also approximate with great certainty the number of times I have said the word maths is zero.

I took mushrooms and did college once.

What this board needed was a math ***** measuring contest done with digital precision and chains of equations.

calc for biz morons and I had no idea what I was doing, all that counted was escape.

I am envious of folks who just seem to get the maths with almost no effort.. ( a former GF fit the description )

One of our kids did not get math, starting from way back, I imagine. The other did, similar to me.

Most of the time through school (Jr high and HS), I could look at stuff and get the right answer. I didn't always know how/why, but I did.

When I was older and our kids were older, I learned to use a Japanese abacus. I think most kids should be taught how to use an abacus, especially the kids that have a tough time with math. It may not work for all of them, but it's another way of visualizing and working with numbers at a basic level. I feel like it might help some of those folks as it really breaks them down to basic building blocks, and I suspect if they learned, it would help them later as they got into higher (algebra) primary school type stuff.

I was fine with math until they started throwing letters in it.

I was taught;
Algebra is math in two planes
Trig is math in three planes
Calculus puts it all in motion.
Off to the planets we go and Calculus gets you there.

What I'd like to know...

Who is the ppot member who can only count up to ONE (star.)...and why?


Huge Kudooos if you have the balzzzzzeee to answer why......:D

Challenge on.

(yes... ) I am calling the one star wonder out. Your time is up. speak up or shut up..... There are real problems in the world.

Why is every Vash (and every other) thread such low appeal in your book you need to speak out?

Vash adds to the world. What do you do?

Wow, supe. What are the odds of that? :cool:

+1

Quite a few math classes after Diff Eq.

Too bad that so many math classes are taught by math majors. - ask them for an example application and they just stare at you with WTF in their eyes.

Thinking more, I also had non-linear equations, and chaos (non-integral exponents, fractals, etc). Also, error theory (what happens if your initial conditions change in such and such a way, OR, if you can't find a solution, can you find a solution if you change something slightly).

As for Diff EQ, I ended up taking it 3 times. First time, I failed it, since it was a class of 97 electrical engineers and 3 physics majors (one was me), and every example was EE related. The three of us were lost. That, and drinking too much that year...
Second time was at the local CC, after, you know, drinking too much that year.
Third time was back on campus, after finding out that the second time wouldn't transfer. Ended up taking it side by side with 2 other higher level math courses.

Ugh.