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Please stop asking us to find your X. She left and isn't coming back. We don't know Y.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X
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A local teacher got arrested for carrying a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, and a book containing a table of trigonometric functions. He was charged with possession of "weapons of math instruction"!
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!
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Please stop asking us to find your X. She left and isn't coming back. We don't know Y. "Something doesn't add up here", replied Arithmetic "Well -- if he knew how to integrate, he wouldn't have that problem", choked Calculas "Its not just a straight line" chimed Geometry. " Many outcomes- its an inversion matrix", squeaked Differential equations.
Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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Never found a use for algebra, on the other hand geometry and trig proved to be very useful.
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Never found a use for algebra, on the other hand geometry and trig proved to be very useful. You use it every day as part of Set Theory.
Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds
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"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy…
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… Clever.
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… This is a good example of ring theory-- a subset of Set Theory and the intuitive relationship to algebra
Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… Nicely done
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Please stop asking us to find your X. She left and isn't coming back. We don't know Y. She's hiding in the library reading classics. She's X^^2.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… This is a good example of ring theory-- a subset of Set Theory and the intuitive relationship to algebra I gotta ask... Why ethanol? Do you farm corn?
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Never found a use for algebra, on the other hand geometry and trig proved to be very useful. You only think that. In practice, I bet you use it daily.
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An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… Yes, of course x = 2. By 1, I meant the equation was easy !
Paul.
"Kids who grow up hunting, fishing & trapping, do not mug little old Ladies"
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… Yes, of course x = 2. By 1, I meant the equation was easy ! Yes, x=2, but you were asked to solve for X which is undefined. x != X
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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I go about daily life without the alphabet soup of algebraic equations very nicely.
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I go about daily life without the alphabet soup of algebraic equations very nicely. Many commonly used measurements are merely algebra but just not written out in formal equations.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X Must be an easy 1 ! Even my being out of school for over 40 years, brain solved in seconds Easy 1? Nope, 2 easy… This is a good example of ring theory-- a subset of Set Theory and the intuitive relationship to algebra I gotta ask... Why ethanol? Do you farm corn? After ready some of the replies on Campy-- I need a good stiff one!!!!
Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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Hear about the constipated mathematician?
He worked the problem out with a pencil.
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My first and last algebra teacher was named Mr. Boris
and he did on a daily basis.Really caught up on some good sleep in that class,
Only have used algebra several times in 50 years.I guess it ain't critical.
Rehab is for quitters!
THEY are all guilty!
Name one honest politician!
DEFINE Treason.
God bless the USA
Democrats ARE the plague!
RINO'S need to be hunted!
Who's a bigger puzzy than Paul Ryan? Mike Pence? John Kerry ?
REELECT NOBODY! Except Trump
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Nothing funnier than being in a college Math 101 course and watching a college student stare at this equation on the board without a clue…
3x + 7 = 13 solve for X 7th grade math. Shouldnt stump a college kid. They should find it Two Easy.
Last edited by Crockettnj; 04/07/24.
Quit giving in inch by inch then looking back to lament the mile behind ya and wonder how to preserve those few feet left in front of ya. They'll never stop until they're stopped. That's a fact.
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I never thought I would use algebra. Used it almost every day in the oilfield.
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Algebra and any other math made my school days hell, my grades sucked and I never thought I’d use it.
Funny thing, I’m better at math now than I ever was then and “do” more math than I ever did in school.
My Grandad always said he didn’t understand algebra and had no use for it. Then go use it a few dozen times a day out in his shop. He used it and understood it, he just didn’t know what it was.
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people use algebras (notice the plural) everyday and don't know it. its intuitive. one branch in particular called combinatorics is used and most folks just don't think of it as algebra. combinatorics is the math of groupings, and combinations, how many sentences did I just make not using capitals. Anyone that does gambling is using it.
why is a negative times a negative a positive? funniest answer I ever heard was the positive times a negative was already used and that was what was left to use.
most of the new inventions in plastics are combinatorics done on computer before they are made in the lab. Drug possibilities and Peptides (think semaglutide or LP-1s)
all electrical circuits are combinatorial
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To be serious, I did well with the simple algebra, the advanced, not so well. I don't think the teacher understood it either.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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I think I read, H L Hunt considered an education a hindrance to making money.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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I asked my Algebra teacher, "When am I ever going to use this?"
He replied, "Well you won't, but one of the smart kids might."
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