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Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Never took it, didn't miss much.
Hell, most of what I need I learned by 8th grade. Maybe earlier.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Amazingly I use geometry every day. The purest of all!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Reminds me of the grind I went through trying to balance equations in Chemistry I & II - Ugh.........
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
We are all Rhodesians now.
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2 yrs in high school 1 semester “at university”
Your mind probably uses it more at the subconscious level.
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2 yrs in high school 1 semester “at university”
Your mind probably uses it more at the subconscious level. True. Algebra is about the process. As for geometry, never took it either. But general math at the lower grades covered the basics of those, and Trig. My hardest math class was 8th grade. Didn't know it, but it was pre algebra. Never considered myself smart, dam sure not college material. Took general math from then on. Never learned anything more. When the kids were in 1st and 2nd grade, their math was the simple addition and subtraction. But, the format for their homework was to present the problems in algebra type problems. Blew my mind, but it was great. As they progressed, nothing was new. Just a continual building on a foundation. They have never had common core stuff, it is only taught at below average classes here. I've seen common core. If you think adding to subtract or multiplying to divide is nuts, You should see a 5th grade kid draw a box, put a cross in it, use tic marks and numbers on the lines, then mark out numbers and add stuff up. All to get the answer to a problem that us old farts learned in our multiplication tables.
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Once in a while maybe.
Math in school.....physics and chem ( 1 and 2 ) in college was OK. Statics, dynamics, fluid power, machine design...good enough.
Thermo sucked azz
Calc 1 was good, when I was in Calc 2. I suppose if I took Calc 3 my Calc 2 would have gotten decent LOL
Had enough of that BS
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We put men on the moon w slide rules.
This new wave math chit, catering to less than 2% of the populations learning style, while making a mess of the other 98% is beyond stupid.
All my kids took AP crap in HS and hell the books half the time gave no clue. It was all cosmic pull it out of your azz stuff.
Hell if they did Jap shortcut stuff thatd have been cool.
I got th right answers, when helping my kids, doing it the old way, way faster...
and I hadnt done that crap for 20 yrs.
My kids were stunned, right answer fast. But not the way the teacher wanted
I asked was the goal.the right answer or not?
Teach said no, the method is what they were teaching. My reply was " what good is the method if they cant get the right answer ?"
Deer in the fuggin headlights.
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I used trigonometry daily for a couple of decades.
But don't recall ever using algebra.
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I did a couple months ago, seriously. But damn if I can remember wtf the problem was.
Oh well.
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Math teachers you how to apply logic to problems in a systematic fashion.
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I try to use the word cornucopia every day since I had to learn to spell it in school... but there's only so many ways you can use an old goat horn...
Math I use every day, fixing architect's F'ed up CAD drawings.
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I try to use the word cornucopia every day since I had to learn to spell it in school... but there's only so many ways you can use an old goat horn...
Math I use every day, fixing architect's F'ed up CAD drawings.
Kent Architects work in the wrong scale too.
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I unraveled an ownership question via a "mixture problem" approach and the attorney and landman who had been fooling with the problem thought I was a magician.
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I beg to differ.. Every soldier who served in Vietnam had to understand Y=mx+b The equation of the slope.,
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..." Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay " Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Math teachers you how to apply logic to problems in a systematic fashion. Taught me how to cuss. Hated algebra. Gave me gray hair. Then post grad Optometry school. Had to learn how to use a slide rule for physical optics, theoretical optics, physiological optics, light wave optics, psychological optics, geometrical optics, asswhole optics. Crap.
Ecc 10:2 The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.
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I use algebra every day from squaring walls, figuring out square ft of hip roofs and gables to flooring, ceilings and walls, angles of crown molding, etc....
Now could I tell you the name of the Theorem's? Heck fire no! I just know what I'm doing requires algebraic equations. But I've been doing them for so long it just comes second nature. Like knowing the multiplication table up to 20. Because every residential carpenter is constantly measuring the square ft of things.
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Actually using algebra eventually becomes so automatic that we may not realize we're using it at all. Whenever we look for the unknown we're using it.
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
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In one form or another I probably used Algebra, geometry or trig daily in tactical aviation In later aircraft the computers pretty much do all the “cyphering” for you but in the F-4 and to some extent in the F-14, you had to figure out lateral displacement and altitude split of an inbound bogey using angle off the nose, antenna angle and range, etc
E.g. if the bogey is 1 degree above you at 60 miles, he’s 6000’ higher than you. If he’s on a parallel flight path and he’s 20 degrees right at 20 miles you’ve got about 40,000 feet or 6 1/2 miles of lateral separation. Plenty of room to make a rendezvous turn if it’s a tanker or join up if you’re trying to ID the other guy even in the clouds. It got to be second nature even at 500 kts. It’s even more fun at mach +. 😁
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Algebra?? Two years of it but all I needed to make $$$$$$ was this: Untitled by .com/photos/61286670N08/]Sharps Man, on [bleep]
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