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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
When visiting family, I ended up helping my 17 yr old sister-in-law with her homework. Now note that I am an engineering student, and have been through Calc 3 and Differential Equations. It took me the longest time to figure out synthetic division so that I could help her, I felt like a total dumbass. What is the saying about being educated to the point of stupidity?
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The same thing happens to me, I hate it.
I'm going into learning integration involving trig functions now...I can't remember for the life of me the basic properties of sin, cos, and tan, or some of their identities. Uggh...
Aurel, I liked the quadratic technique. It's one formula I haven't forgotten, I've had enough practice with it.