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Beyond it's nigh-impossible phoenetics, this place houses three important things: My cousins, my Doors hat, and my Thanksgiving 'vacation' spot.
I'm very upset at losing The Doors hat, by the way.
But my cousins... Dear God, I think they're multiplying. Each year, I have a new set of brats to watch over while the adults get drunk and play their card games. Certainly, they deserve it, but that's not to say that I deserve what they're giving me... for two weeks. I got back, and I never want to go to that awful house EVER again. Two weeks, three expired Ritalin prescriptions, and a 'Pool Cue of Justice' later, I now officially declare Connecticut unfit for habitation. All who value their sanity should evacuate before I go on a general killing spree.

Why were you on a Thanksgiving vacation for 2 weeks? I got 2 fucking days and a weekend.

Baba's special. He DESERVED the torture he got. You're all right.

I TOOK two weeks off. I took my school work with me.
y = mx + b is a bastard when you're calculating with one hand and smacking children upside the head with the other.

y=mx+b is a fucking joke. The little kids on the other hand...

Sorry for trying to sound like a smartass, but isn't it y=mx+c? Where m is the gradiet of a straight line and c is the y-intercept? I'm sure it's the same either way but I'm just saying it, for, you know, the sake of it.

C or B, it doesn't matter.

I always wondered how they chose the letters they did for math. Did they just draw them out of a hat or something?

I passed Precalculus by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin. What the fuck is a gradiet? Is that another word for "slope"?

Gradiet is the slope.

OK. Thanks. and b/c is the number of units the line is from the origin.

Correct.
The more you know... *Star flies by*

.....Eh? I thought b/c was the Y-intercept, unless I misread the posts or something.

It's "gradient". Sorry.

Pretty much all the letters chosen in math are arbitrary. Funny you call the slope a gradient though, I had never heard that terminology until my current math class, Calculus 3. By the way multivariable shit fucking sucks. Just something to look forward too... assuming your major even requires it.

Yeah. God knows I really need it in my occupation of an unpaid hermit.

Oh, and x = (-b±{root}[b²-4ac])/2a...AMAZINGLY vital in my life.

All you crazy Yanks/Canucks/etc have to do some serious shit for your Maths. All I learnt was trigonometry and basic algebra and I got a C on the Higher paper. Possibly from luck.

Wow.

You're stupid.

I got an ungraded. Go me.

Actually the quadratic formula is kind of useful, maybe not to you, but in other applications for people in the field. However I can't shake the feeling that more than half the math I have learned is useless considering you only really need to know about 30% of it to go onto the next course.

My dad keeps telling me its not just the stuff you learn, it teaches you to think differently. Either way I still hate math as of the end of Calc 1.

When I was in seventh grade, I was a fucking math machine. I swear to God in Heaven, I never, ever scored less than 100% on ANYTHING.

I own.

Owned.

The Doc wrote:When I was in seventh grade

And didn't have to do anything harder than .5 x .5 = .25?

Isn't the gradient the x' and y' components on the z plane of a multivariable equation?

I had an awesome math class this semester. Hard (Calculus II for Engineers), but the professor had a great German accent and was (often unintentionally) hilarious.