Ambiguously Gendered Revenge of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

Would it work on the grade I got in Calculus?

That depends on whether the graph of your grade as differentiable.

 

[Kemrain]

Yet you didn't forget to mention Pr0n...

I have to. It's in my contract.

- Kepr0nmrain the Conpr0ntractual.

 

[Kemrain]

Why blame the parent when you can blame the system? Avoidance of responsibility is at the heart of American culture!

This is very true. Sadly true. But, at least I can say with all honesty that it isn't my fault.

- Kemrain the Guilty.

 

[Kemrain]

Physics is worse in the proliferation o' formulae department.

What I learned in college:

English is really Psychology
Psychology is really Biology
Biology is really Chemistry
Chemistry is really Physics
Physics is really Math
Math is really hard.

Wow. Amusingly, and sadly, accurate.

Agreeed. Calculus is actually much much easier than the Algebra that is needed for Calculus.

Is this a bad time to mention that I'm not sure what, exactly, Calculus is? Algebra was very hard for me, but I think I know why. I never learned Math Theory. I was explained How Math works, but never Why Math works. When I asked, I was told "That's just the way it is." Algebra makes no sense to me at all. I've literally failed highschool Algebra 6 times. No one has ever been able to explain to me the whys.

- Kemrain the Mathmatical Failure.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Wow. Amusingly, and sadly, accurate.

Is this a bad time to mention that I'm not sure what, exactly, Calculus is? Algebra was very hard for me, but I think I know why. I never learned Math Theory. I was explained How Math works, but never Why Math works. When I asked, I was told "That's just the way it is." Algebra makes no sense to me at all. I've literally failed highschool Algebra 6 times. No one has ever been able to explain to me the whys.

- Kemrain the Mathmatical Failure.

High school Algebra; that's the second year of Algebra, right? The one that comes after Geometry? We called it Algebra II in Maryland, since it wasn't necessarily taken in High School. OK, well I guess 99% of people took it in High School, but I did it earlier and started with Trig in High School...

 

[Kemrain]

High school Algebra; that's the second year of Algebra, right? The one that comes after Geometry? We called it Algebra II in Maryland, since it wasn't necessarily taken in High School. OK, well I guess 99% of people took it in High School, but I did it earlier and started with Trig in High School...

Algebra 1. Took it before Geometry was offered. My 8th Grade Math teacher had such a thick accent that I couldn't understand a word she said. I doubt that helped my skills.

- Kemrain the Dismathular.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Algebra 1. Took it before Geometry was offered. My 8th Grade Math teacher had such a thick accent that I couldn't understand a word she said. I doubt that helped my skills.

- Kemrain the Dismathular.

So you took it in Middle School but they called the course "High School Algebra" ? Who'dve thunk

 

[Torm]

But if all are one in the Hivemind does that mean that all Hivemind threads are one?

Yes.

 

[Torm]

I've literally failed highschool Algebra 6 times. No one has ever been able to explain to me the whys.

I'm assuming you mean WHY you would want to use a letter?

The purpose of any algebra problem is to allow someone to create a formula for solving a problem (in the above case, of creating an appropriate greeting), when all of the variables aren't known up front. An example:

I'm going to throw a party, and I want to make sure I have enough drinks for everyone who comes. I don't know how many people I'm inviting yet, but I DO know that I want to make sure everyone has at least two cans. Therefore:

Y multiplied by 2 = Z

Where Y is the number of people I will invite, and Z is the number of cans I will need to buy.

Pretty straight forward - and you'd probably just do this in your head rather than making an equation. But a similar (if more complex) equation becomes much more useful when, for example, you are trying to make sure you know what trajectory to launch a rocket at, and you're dealing with a moving target whose position you won't know until time to launch.

Does that help?

 

[Goblyn]

Wow. Amusingly, and sadly, accurate.

Is this a bad time to mention that I'm not sure what, exactly, Calculus is? Algebra was very hard for me, but I think I know why. I never learned Math Theory. I was explained How Math works, but never Why Math works. When I asked, I was told "That's just the way it is." Algebra makes no sense to me at all. I've literally failed highschool Algebra 6 times. No one has ever been able to explain to me the whys.

- Kemrain the Mathmatical Failure.

What!?! You're not ... good at mm..

And you call yourself a geek/nerd/dork(pick your favorite).

Turn in your pocket protecter and get the hell out of my library