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Started by Reginus, September 11, 2010, 12:43:02 AM

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Asmodean

#30
September 13, 2010, 05:47:09 PM
Quote from: "Godless"If you don't like math now, try taking Differential Equations and Multivariable Calculus in college... then you'll really despise math. I'm currently in Differential Equations and I'm going to take Multivariable Calculus next semester. Homework takes hours and on my last homework, a single problem took up more than an entire page.
Can be quite miserable, can it not..?  :verysad:
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Heretical Rants

#31
September 14, 2010, 04:50:05 AM
Quote from: "Godless"If you don't like math now, try taking Differential Equations and Multivariable Calculus in college... then you'll really despise math. I'm currently in Differential Equations and I'm going to take Multivariable Calculus next semester. Homework takes hours and on my last homework, a single problem took up more than an entire page.
Maybe I just had a good professor...

SSY

#32
September 14, 2010, 05:14:35 AM
Quote from: "Godless"If you don't like math now, try taking Differential Equations and Multivariable Calculus in college... then you'll really despise math. I'm currently in Differential Equations and I'm going to take Multivariable Calculus next semester. Homework takes hours and on my last homework, a single problem took up more than an entire page.

At the risk of breaking my outgeeking guideline, a one page solution is a minnow.
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Thumpalumpacus

#33
September 14, 2010, 06:22:15 AM
Hey, we've got "my dick if bigger than yours" with actual math involved.  This is a first.
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Asmodean

#34
September 14, 2010, 11:51:00 AM
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Hey, we've got "my dick if bigger than yours" with actual math involved.  This is a first.
Me, I'm pretty well pleased with above average...  :D
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epepke

#35
September 14, 2010, 05:27:29 PM
Was the claim that differential equations are hard?  That wasn't my claim.  My claim was that in order to solve them in a reasonable amount of time, one has to have things like algebra so well known that it feels like an automatic process to solve them.

It's just like music.  In order to play music, one has to know scales and finger patterns down pat.  The process of learning scales and finger patterns isn't itself much fun, but it's necessary in order to be able to do more advanced stuff.

Heretical Rants

#36
September 14, 2010, 05:48:55 PM
Quote from: "epepke"in order to solve them in a reasonable amount of time, one has to have things like algebra so well known that it feels like an automatic process
Agreed.

Asmodean

#37
September 14, 2010, 07:14:34 PM
Quote from: "Heretical Rants"
Quote from: "epepke"in order to solve them in a reasonable amount of time, one has to have things like algebra so well known that it feels like an automatic process
Agreed.
Thirded.
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deekayfry

#38
September 17, 2010, 03:29:04 AM
Quote from: "Thumpalumpacus"Hey, we've got "my dick if bigger than yours" with actual math involved.  This is a first.

I didn't even care to start with! :D

Math was fun inschool and then at work it become a time sucking nuisance.

I learned real quick, and not quick enough at that, to put the calculator up when production went down.  My motivation?  Getting my ass chewed up one side of a wall and down another.
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Godless

#39
September 17, 2010, 12:02:58 PM
Well other than math, my Data Structures and Algorithms class (2nd level C++ course) is raping me in the ass because my teacher isn't that great and he throws super hard homeworks/projects at us :(

Tank

#40
September 17, 2010, 12:17:21 PM
Quote from: "Godless"Well other than math, my Data Structures and Algorithms class (2nd level C++ course) is raping me in the ass because my teacher isn't that great and he throws super hard homeworks/projects at us :(
Bastard! (The teacher not you)
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epepke

#41
September 17, 2010, 01:25:11 PM
Quote from: "Godless"Well other than math, my Data Structures and Algorithms class (2nd level C++ course) is raping me in the ass because my teacher isn't that great and he throws super hard homeworks/projects at us :(

What text are you using?  30 years ago we used Algorithms + Data Stuctures = Programs, but that was before objects were widely taught.

Godless

#42
September 17, 2010, 07:23:27 PM
Quote from: "epepke"
Quote from: "Godless"Well other than math, my Data Structures and Algorithms class (2nd level C++ course) is raping me in the ass because my teacher isn't that great and he throws super hard homeworks/projects at us :(

What text are you using?  30 years ago we used Algorithms + Data Stuctures = Programs, but that was before objects were widely taught.

My textbook is called "Data Abstraction & Problem Solving with C++" by Frank M. Carrano
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