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To: Morgana
Ping me when they can do differential and integrative calculus

Spokeshave who tought advanced placement pure and applied mathematics.

5 posted on 01/02/2026 12:22:14 PM PST by spokeshave ( Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads, Curmudgeons & old Geezers)
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To: spokeshave
Agreed. I found myself in CS 430 Computational Modeling. The first day of class, our instructor announced which class we were in to make sure we were all in the right place. He said his name, and then said, "And you're all a bunch of computer science majors wondering why your network programming specialization requires you to take a numerical modeling course." We all laughed.

He said that he used numerical modeling to modify the Ethernet protocol's handling of packet collisions (the random wait time before trying to retransmit). I never used that for my code writing. LOL But I've called on those skills a few times with some of my data reporting.

9 posted on 01/02/2026 12:38:01 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: spokeshave

Or geochemistry which is really thermodynamic chemistry at depth with great overburden pressures and temperatures. That course was a bitch. Only five of us signed up for the course. We all got an A and deserved it. The final was a “take home exam” with two weeks until due, and the professor knew we would work together on super bitch problems. He also knew we would all learn much from this.

Unusual things happen at extreme pressures and temperatures. A triple point phase diagram defies common sense but it is real.


13 posted on 01/02/2026 1:12:51 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: spokeshave

Or geochemistry which is really thermodynamic chemistry at depth with great overburden pressures and temperatures. That course was a bitch. Only five of us signed up for the course. We all got an A and deserved it. The final was a “take home exam” with two weeks until due, and the professor knew we would work together on super bitch problems. He also knew we would all learn much from this.

Unusual things happen at extreme pressures and temperatures. A triple point phase diagram defies common sense but it is real.


14 posted on 01/02/2026 1:15:05 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: spokeshave
Ping me when they can do differential and integrative calculus

no problem, as long as they don't have to master operations with signed integers or fractions

27 posted on 01/02/2026 2:53:20 PM PST by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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