Anyone know calculus

[bowtiemonster]

Because it is kicking my a$$. :'( :P >

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: Anyone know calculus

Calculus for Dummies got me to understand a lot of it and I directly credit it for getting me through Calculus.

[std]

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I think Calculus was a Roman Emperor or maybe a porn movie. Not sure.

[bowtiemonster]

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Calculus for Dummies got me to understand a lot of it and I directly credit it for getting me through Calculus.

Thanks I give it a try.

[KeithTurk]

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Nahhh Dave.... everyone knows that was Abacus... or that was a foul mouthed rock band... shoot it's been to long...

K

[std]

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OOh.. Abacus..I wasn't counting on that.

[Two Lane Blacktop]

Calculus

Calculus? :o

4 Words:

Hewlett-Packard Programmable Calculators!


Very user-friendly & formula-intuitive. --
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Free Tangential Sidenote:


The initial shuttle flights for several years relied on handheld HP calculators

(1980s vintage) for 90%+ of their required routine flight calculations. Each

crew member had their own. There are great photos in the www.NASA.org

archives of the "dashboard" of the early Shuttle flights, with several HP units

velcro'd within easy reach. NASA still uses the current HP handheld

(graphing) calculators as battery-powered back-ups, in case of an onboard

power or system malfunction.

[squirrel]

Re: Anyone know calculus

my old HPs all died! sad....

Anyways, I knew calculus 25 years ago, but it's a distant memory now. My kids are learning it now....

[fahrenschnell]

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Calculus is not so bad ;)

HP's are also still used by Naval Nuclear Training Command.
We used them to calculate Nuclear Reactor Criticality.
Great Units and pretty durable.

[KeithTurk]

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Calculas 1 and 2 are a Nightmare only eclipsed by English 101...

K

[Two Lane Blacktop]

Totally Transient Off-Topic Reply

*Nuclear*

(Served as OIC-PRP w/23rd Ord [USAREUR] in an earlier life)

Ever calculated your cumulative lifetime rads (cGy/sieverts)?

Just calculating my documented #s were..."interesting" !!
Best not to add the (unknowable) "unknown" exposures to those totals. :o

[Woodward_Dreams]

Re: Anyone know calculus

Im in Calc 1 right now and i have a D in the class. Ive been staying after school with the teacher and i still dont get it. Ive been working my butt off and nothing's changing. i guess sometimes hard work doesnt really pay off.


bowtiemonster, i feel your pain :'( :'(

[TheSilverBuick]

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Ok, I don't like admitting this, but I pulled a C- THREE times in Calc 1 (of 3) which wasn't considered passing enough to move to the next Calc class. Basically the minus was a way for the teachers to laugh they're asses off by saying "Oooh Sooo Cloooose this time" > Got that Calculus for Dummies book, and pulled an A in Calc 1, B in Calc 2 and a C+ in Calc 3. Thankfully there wasn't a Calc 4, because it didn't take a calculus course to see where that trend was going, but it was sufficient enough.

[fahrenschnell]

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(Served as OIC-PRP w/23rd Ord [USAREUR] in an earlier life)

Ever calculated your cumulative lifetime rads (cGy/sieverts)?

Just calculating my documented #s were..."interesting" !!
Best not to add the (unknowable) "unknown" exposures to those totals. :o
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The unknown are so high that they would make most people really freak. When I tell people how much radiation they get from flying cross country they usually don't believe me. We had to make sure we didn't take our TLD's with us because it would exceed our allowed naval dosage for the year. Funny stuff. Thats without mentioning the alpha radiation from smoking.. It is a wonder I don't glow in the dark.

[HEMI]

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Yes,and he wasn't a carjunkie.