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daleks
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This thread is just what the title says it is. It is all about Math. You can post math jokes(the jokes don't have to be good), math questions, what you like about Math, or even why you hate Math.

My math joke: Resistance is not futile. It is voltage divided by amps.

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thepunisher93
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I am good at addition and multiplication
3 + 2 = 5
5+8=13
and
2*2=4
4*2=8
8*2=16
16*2=32
32*2=64
64*2=128
128*2=256
256*2=512
512*2=1024
1024*2=2048
2048*2=4096
4096*2=8192
8192*2=16384
Because I learned accounting in high school.

daleks
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What is it, in a nutshell?

I took Honors Algebra II so I am probably not the best person to ask. You learn Parabolas, Circles, Ellipses, Hyperbolas. Lots of graphing and solving for X. Hopefully someone else is better at explaining.
Freakenstein
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My AlgebraII class dealt mainly with factoring polynomials (x+2)*(x+3) from (x^2+5x+6) and reverse. You then get to solve prime trinomials via the quadratic formula.

The magical part of AlgebraII is the part where you get to play with imaginary numbers, rooting negative numbers, and rationalizing root fractions. Ahhh, those were the days...

Alexistigerspice
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Daleks and Freakenstein, thats pretty much what my Math II class consists of. We completed most of that early on, so we've been doing binary lately. I'm not so good at that.

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I'm in Alg. II and I LOVE IT!!! It's awesome and right now we are doing polynomials. I just fully understood how to graph functions of x like f(x)=x^2(x-6)(x+5)^3


BEST FEELING EVER!!!!

Carlytoon
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Cool thread, I like Math too, and I love how I can apply it in programming

The mathematics are null if you do not know how to apply them

invalid777
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Oh Yeah. . . Do any of you have any tricks to memorizing the centroid, circumcenter, incenter, etc. ? It's really confusing me right now.

zakyman
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Do any of you have any tricks to memorizing the centroid, circumcenter, incenter, etc. ?


I did, but then I realized that I would rather stab my eyes out. Sorry...

BTWs, geometry is my least favorite math subject. I HATE proofs *shudder shudder*
Alexistigerspice
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Circumsize the perpetrator (circumcenter, perp. bisector)
You go to the orthodontist (orthocenter) to fix your teeth, which are up and down(altitude)
Thats all i can remember right now. There were others but I have it all straight up memorized.

Alexistigerspice
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Ohh my goodness proofs! Those were so annoying! Having to list EVERY SINGLE relation... those were the bane of my existance.

invalid777
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Thanks Alexis!!!

Proofs were definitely the worst part of Geometry. The shapes were fine, I like numbers, but proofs are just... No. Just no.


I don't think they're that bad. They just take a long time to write things down. And my teacher allows us to use abbreviations; e.g.
theorem --> thm
triangle --> [draw a triangle]
postulate --> post
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Wow, this thread is really starting to kick off now... Um, since I'm taking business math this year, I don't really have any cool eqations or problems to show... Oh, and how many digits of pi do you know?

master565
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Oh, and how many digits of pi do you know?


All of them.
Alexistigerspice
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Master, thats a funny joke. Pi is a nonterminating decimal.
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164...
Thats for you John.

Carlytoon
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Oh, and how many digits of pi do you know?

All of them.


Pff, thats nothing, I know all the decimals of INFINITE XD
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