Sometimes I’m A Fucking Idiot
So, I had an absolutely miserable calculus 3 test last Thursday. I didn’t mention it earlier, because it was before I resumed blogging. In fact, the test was so long and miserable for most of the class, that the professor let us take one problem home to do, the problem that asked us to find torsion for a vector that got more complex every time you derived it. I wasted a lot of time and frustration after dinner last night attempting to do the problem without one simple piece of information that I forgot to copy down, a simple t=0 (Thank you again, Sarah).
Do I think the majority of the population will really care about this? Probably not, but I feel like ranting, and I’m getting back into blogging, so think of anything that happens as “potentially bloggable”. Don’t worry if you don’t understand any of this problem either. As far as I’m concerned, this isn’t exactly the most useful kind of math. In fact, I can’t wait for vectors to be over, so I can get back to practical use math that I might actually need for anything Actuarial Science related.
Math with numbers is so much easier.
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Yes, the determinant with only whole numbers is much easier, although don’t forget that I screwed it up the first time with my lack of ability to add and subtract. I probably would have gotten the more complicated one correct the first time, though.
And this is so useful! In math class.
You’re just a math major and past the level of arithmetic, but I congratulate you on your retained ability to do complicated algebra. Maybe by the time you graduate, you’ll become like Friedman and won’t be able to do the algebra either
Useful in math class? Probably. I can’t say I’m going to need to do this very often when I’m calculating the risk of casualties, though.