[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Is math really that difficult? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/4/2015 11:08:55 PM EDT
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Look, I know we, collectively, are spiraling downward into a nation of overweight ignorant boobs but is simple fucking addition, subtraction, and maybe a smidge of multiplication that god damned difficult? How about instead of choking up one of the 3 (of 15) fucking checkout lanes that is open because the wal mart manager is in the break room banging the 19 year old meth head from the service desk, you fucking figure out hoe to take your damned receipt home and do some basic fucking arithmetic to see how much your worthless daughter in law owes you for the cigarettes and monster energy drinks. Do you REALLY have to use three different cards for three different fucking transactions? Jesus tap dancing Christ, your motherfucking smart phone (for which I am certainly paying) probably has a cocksucking calculator on it. You know, that little 15 key wonder that most 2 year olds can use to figure out how many goddamned diapers they got all shitty in a given day?
Thanks for allowing me to vent. 
TL/DR: half wits in front of me in checkout line can't do math so they have to do 3 different transactions to keep everything straight between em. |
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6/10 Short and nowhere near enough profanity. Plus, I'm still mad about the dog thing. Typing on my phone so brevity is important. How did I piss you off over a dog? (Disclosure: I'm so damned absent minded I get up to take a piss and forget why the fuck I'm in the bathroom) |
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that's not math, it's arithmetic Quoted:
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Look, I know we, collectively, are spiraling downward into a nation of overweight ignorant boobs but is simple fucking addition, subtraction, and maybe a smidge of multiplication that god damned difficult? that's not math, it's arithmetic FFS, you know what I mean. |
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Check out continuum mechanics theory and report back. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Mechanics is not mathematics. Of course it is. Mechanics of materials is all math with a little theory mixed in. Unfortunately even engineers can't figure it out from the break downs I am having to deal with. |
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What kind of her pays a pizza guy with a hundred? You screwed him. Quoted:
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The kid that delivered our pizza last night couldn't figure out the change for $19.75 out of $100.00. Yea, we are fucked. What kind of her pays a pizza guy with a hundred? You screwed him. I'm surprised the kid had enough cash on him to make change from a hundred. If it were me I would think you're setting me up. |
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Typing on my phone so brevity is important. How did I piss you off over a dog? (Disclosure: I'm so damned absent minded I get up to take a piss and forget why the fuck I'm in the bathroom) Quoted:
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6/10 Short and nowhere near enough profanity. Plus, I'm still mad about the dog thing. Typing on my phone so brevity is important. How did I piss you off over a dog? (Disclosure: I'm so damned absent minded I get up to take a piss and forget why the fuck I'm in the bathroom) You thought your dog was pregnant. I promised my kids a trip to Disney world and a puppy. They still won't talk to me.  From a team thread a couple years ago. You were pissed about a run of bad luck.
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There's something wrong with the way math is taught. I know many many intelligent people who don't get math. This is ridiculous. Anybody of average intelligence should be able to get any subject taught in school. I personally was a victim of the new math back in the 70s. About the time I was starting to memorize multiplication tables we suddenly had to decide what color was 9, how may circles in 7. 
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So solve a mechanics equation without using math. Show your work. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Quoted:
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Check out continuum mechanics theory and report back. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Mechanics is not mathematics. So solve a mechanics equation without using math. Show your work. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I can't write an essay without using letters. Ergo, letters = writing. <drops mic, walks away> |
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Mechanics of materials is all math with a little theory mixed in. Unfortunately even engineers can't figure it out from the break downs I am having to deal with. Quoted:
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Check out continuum mechanics theory and report back. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Mechanics is not mathematics. Of course it is. Mechanics of materials is all math with a little theory mixed in. Unfortunately even engineers can't figure it out from the break downs I am having to deal with. Mathematics describes the theory of mechanics. |
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I can't write an essay without using letters. Ergo, letters = writing. <drops mic, walks away> Quoted:
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Check out continuum mechanics theory and report back. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Mechanics is not mathematics. So solve a mechanics equation without using math. Show your work. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I can't write an essay without using letters. Ergo, letters = writing. <drops mic, walks away> Funny you bring up letters. That's what most math uses.... 
Not trying to be a pompous jerk. Just trying to lighten the mood. This thread got way to serious too quickly 
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fing TRIG is.. How do you feel about the unit circle? http://i.imgur.com/wa9z4Il.gif?1 Not until tomorrow at 2:20. Fing unit circle pie radians verify identies wtf happened to solving equations? |
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Look, I know we, collectively, are spiraling downward into a nation of overweight ignorant boobs but is simple fucking addition, subtraction, and maybe a smidge of multiplication that god damned difficult? How about instead of choking up one of the 3 (of 15) fucking checkout lanes that is open because the wal mart manager is in the break room banging the 19 year old meth head from the service desk, you fucking figure out hoe to take your damned receipt home and do some basic fucking arithmetic to see how much your worthless daughter in law owes you for the cigarettes and monster energy drinks. Do you REALLY have to use three different cards for three different fucking transactions? Jesus tap dancing Christ, your motherfucking smart phone (for which I am certainly paying) probably has a cocksucking calculator on it. You know, that little 15 key wonder that most 2 year olds can use to figure out how many goddamned diapers they got all shitty in a given day? Thanks for allowing me to vent.
TL/DR: half wits in front of me in checkout line can't do math so they have to do 3 different transactions to keep everything straight between em. I believe you are looking for "HOW" not "HOE". A hoe is a garden tool. Jesus, doesn't anyone know how to spell anymore? |
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I believe you are looking for "HOW" not "HOE". A hoe is a garden tool. Jesus, doesn't anyone know how to spell anymore? Quoted:
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Look, I know we, collectively, are spiraling downward into a nation of overweight ignorant boobs but is simple fucking addition, subtraction, and maybe a smidge of multiplication that god damned difficult? How about instead of choking up one of the 3 (of 15) fucking checkout lanes that is open because the wal mart manager is in the break room banging the 19 year old meth head from the service desk, you fucking figure out hoe to take your damned receipt home and do some basic fucking arithmetic to see how much your worthless daughter in law owes you for the cigarettes and monster energy drinks. Do you REALLY have to use three different cards for three different fucking transactions? Jesus tap dancing Christ, your motherfucking smart phone (for which I am certainly paying) probably has a cocksucking calculator on it. You know, that little 15 key wonder that most 2 year olds can use to figure out how many goddamned diapers they got all shitty in a given day? Thanks for allowing me to vent.
TL/DR: half wits in front of me in checkout line can't do math so they have to do 3 different transactions to keep everything straight between em. I believe you are looking for "HOW" not "HOE". A hoe is a garden tool. Jesus, doesn't anyone know how to spell anymore? Touché
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You thought your dog was pregnant. I promised my kids a trip to Disney world and a puppy. They still won't talk to me. From a team thread a couple years ago. You were pissed about a run of bad luck.Quoted:
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6/10 Short and nowhere near enough profanity. Plus, I'm still mad about the dog thing. Typing on my phone so brevity is important. How did I piss you off over a dog? (Disclosure: I'm so damned absent minded I get up to take a piss and forget why the fuck I'm in the bathroom) You thought your dog was pregnant. I promised my kids a trip to Disney world and a puppy. They still won't talk to me. From a team thread a couple years ago. You were pissed about a run of bad luck.Um, I have a neutered male Shih Tzu. |
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It depends on what you are talking about. Like most applications of math, where you are using established methodologies to solve a problem? Well, its not difficult in the sense of developing something new, its just difficult in remembering all of the rules and applying them correctly. If it is something you do all the time, the rules will become second nature to you. Often times setting up the problem is the difficult part (aka, correlating the math to actual practical applications). Also, solving mathematical proofs, or developing equations, can be extremely difficult, as you have to have insights on how to get where you want to go. You can hand me an equation in the middle of a complicated proof, and sure, I can play around with it, but I'll almost assuredly be flopping around hopelessly with algebra and calculus forever, never being able to think of all the steps needed in order to get to the final solution. |
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Um, I have a neutered male Shih Tzu. Quoted:
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6/10 Short and nowhere near enough profanity. Plus, I'm still mad about the dog thing. Typing on my phone so brevity is important. How did I piss you off over a dog? (Disclosure: I'm so damned absent minded I get up to take a piss and forget why the fuck I'm in the bathroom) You thought your dog was pregnant. I promised my kids a trip to Disney world and a puppy. They still won't talk to me. From a team thread a couple years ago. You were pissed about a run of bad luck.Um, I have a neutered male Shih Tzu. Ughhhh, math is hard. 
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How do you feel about the unit circle?  http://i.imgur.com/wa9z4Il.gif?1" />Quoted:
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fing TRIG is.. How do you feel about the unit circle? http://i.imgur.com/wa9z4Il.gif?1" />
I've never seen that. It makes me understand that placing zero degrees on the right wasn't an arbitrary selection. Then again, maybe it proves the Cartesian coordinates thing is ass backward. Didn't y'all ever think it was odd that 0 degrees wasn't at the top where it belongs, but to the right of every goddamn trigonometry diagram you ever saw? I am, at long last, mathematically whole. |