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#1 2006-11-29 19:14:50
- Toast
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Simplify expression
Anyone know how I would simplify this?
ta
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#2 2006-11-29 20:05:12
- Ricky
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Re: Simplify expression
Remember that:
Then remember that:
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#3 2006-11-29 23:04:32
- Toast
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Re: Simplify expression
So, is this right?
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#4 2006-11-29 23:15:59
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Re: Simplify expression
That is actually funny
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
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#5 2006-11-30 00:40:28
- mathsyperson
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Re: Simplify expression
Hehe, before the LaTeX loaded up, we couldn't see what you were talking about and that little conversation looked really funny.
But now that it's up, I can confirm that Toast is right. Go you.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#6 2006-11-30 05:21:31
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Re: Simplify expression
MathIsFun, were you laughing at the same thing?
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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