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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How to math:

  1. Be expected to somehow already know 50,000 trigonometric identities
  2. Cry
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Be expected to somehow already know 50,000 trigonometric identities

But you can derive the other 49,994 from a half-dozen key ones though.

[–] lowleveldata 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey! At least the equations have solutions sometimes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

0 divided by 0 🥲

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, maybe it's just an indeterminate form. You should try differentiating one more time. This time it should work, right?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah this brings me back to my bachelor course on Quantum Physics. Once you end up with intermediate equations spanning a full sheet of paper you start questioning your life choices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fine Structure Hamiltonian says hello

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My actual high school experience. I enjoy math these days. When I was expected to learn and demonstrate it, I was an unstable teenager unsure if I hated myself or my parents more. (Spoiler alert: it was my parents >_>) Doing math made me slow down and make space in my head, which ~~let out all the dead Hanks and Deans~~ allowed the TRUAMA to flood in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like the idea of replacing school by an unordered collection of qualifications, which you can demonstrate anytime. Can visit classes or watch YouTube, take two weeks or five years.

We expect children and teens to study boring stuff while their hormones are boiling, and to decide how their next five decades should look like. Especially tough for those who quit early to start working "lower" jobs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Your PI is going to hear about this blatant plagerism of my work!