Posted on 09/27/2010 6:56:57 PM PDT by pandemoniumreigns
OK I need some math help anybody.
Just use the quadratic formula Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_formula#Quadratic_formula
I would also suggest that you spend more time studing, probably much more. In math, you have to put in the time and the effort. There’s no way around this. But if you work out all the problems, and do it again before each test, it becomes relatively easy to get an A grade. Take it from someone who knows. Try it.
i^2 = -1, dope.
In Advanced HS algebra, the Quadratic formula can be used for any quadratic equation.
5 ± √35
uhhh....isn’t that what I wrote?
Logic? No, it was all semi-irrational math. That’s what they teach nowadays in all the Ivy League schools.
Then surely YOU will be interested in hypercomplex numbers.
See also http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HypercomplexNumber.html
I’m looking to see if Wolfram has psychotic numbers defined. Evidently not. Strange, as algebras employing psychotic numbers are employed by the Federal Reserve in calculating money supply.
1 = 1
-1 = -1
-1/1 = -1/1
-1/1 = 1/-1
Cross multiply:
1*1 = (-1)*(-1)
Take square root of both:
√[1*1] = √[(-1)*(-1)]
1 = -1
At least once a year a Mensa-level smartass kid tries to get Freepers to do his homework for him.
Hasn't worked in the last ten years, that I know about...
nothing is worth posting unless it is funny...but subtleties in mathematics are not funny, unless they are
Albert Einstein said that as a young man, he didn’t think theoretical physicists needed to know any advanced mathematics. He was famously “bad at math”. Of course standards differ. He had mastered calculus by the age of 15. In college Minkowski failed him, in part because he never attended class. Minkowski was one of the most ardent opponents of offering him a job as an instructor at his university. Minkowski and Einstein later reconciled.
Of course, going to an all boys Katlick school we had fewer distractions. I don’t know if I would have gotten through sophmore year in a coed school. (If I went to almost any public school these days, I fear the inanity of it would fustrate me well past tolerance.)
However it does not always yield whole number answers, which is always the point in HS math.
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