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burningleo

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Registered: 2007-04-10

Posts: 24

Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

I like number three on the  one posted by Justlookingforthemoment

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burningleo

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Registered: 2007-04-10

Posts: 24

Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

why do teachers ask you questions tht can have many answers like the find x one tht was right in a sort of way but i bet a teacher would say it's wrong

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LuisRodg

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Registered: 2007-10-23

Posts: 322

Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

I may be a douchebag to point this out but one of the pictures, the ones about the limit as x approaches 8 is wrong.

Here it is:

It says that limit of (1 / (x-8)) as x approaches 8 is infinity which is wrong because for a double-sided limit to exist then the limit from the left and the limit from the right has to be equal. If we take the limit of such function as x approaches from the left = -infinity but if we evaluate from the right then the limit is = infinity which means that the double sided limit does not exist.

But then again this is a joke...Heh

Last edited by LuisRodg (2007-10-23 13:42:17)

mathsyperson

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Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 4,900

Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

If it bothers you that much, you could always open it up in Paint and scrawl an abs and a big pair of brackets around the left side.

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Dross

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Registered: 2006-08-24

Posts: 325

Re: Brilliant mathematical minds

I had a friend who was asked to come up to the board and "remove x" from a pair of simultaneous equations... so he just walked up and rubbed them both out!

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