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i kicked butt. found it VERY easy.


i got my B/A in broadcast journalism but when i took the SAT i got almost 200 points higher in math than verbal.
 

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everyone here has got the talking part done and says that they are sharp in math, who here can actualy walk the walk

1. Suppose that (x_0,y_0)=(0,0) and for every positive interger n,
f(1/n,0)=1 and f(0.1/n)=-1. Does lim (x,y)-->(x_0,y_0) exist?
Prove your answer.

lets see who is really sharp
 

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Aced math in HS, aced, college algebra, aced business statistitcs, aced securities analysis, not sure what else I've taken!
 

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hondaman1 said:
everyone here has got the talking part done and says that they are sharp in math, who here can actualy walk the walk

1. Suppose that (x_0,y_0)=(0,0) and for every positive interger n,
f(1/n,0)=1 and f(0.1/n)=-1. Does lim (x,y)-->(x_0,y_0) exist?
Prove your answer.

lets see who is really sharp
I teach Math at the college level, but I won't tell you where.

First of all, your question seems to have a mistake because

f(1/n,0)=1 and f(0.1/n)=-1 makes no sense ....

but I will assume you mean, f(1/n,0)=1 and f(0.1/n,0)=-1

as n --> infinity, your limit approaches f(0,0) but the limit of f(0,0) as n--> infinity is undefined because of the 1 and -1 so

NO, the limit doesn't exist.
 

Can't we ALL just get along?!!
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I did...in fact for my final senior year I did a complete paper on probability and statistics and their effect on thoroughbred racing.

Got a 97 percent on the paper and the 2nd highest grade in the class (an Indian girl beat me by percentage points). :WTF:

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Here is a question for people from my Statistics I class. It is from McClave-Sinrich.

At the U.S. Open Tennis Championship a statistician keeps track of every serve that a player hits during the tournament. The statistician reported that the mean serve speed of a particular player was 99 miles per hour (mph) and the standard deviation of the serve speeds was 13 mph. Assume that the statistician also gave us the information that the distribution of serve speeds was mound-shaped and symmetric. Find the percentage of serves that were hit with a speed between 86 and 112 mph. (HINT: This doesn't required any "calculation" if approxiamated)
 

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even 68 % is good enough for an approximation if it;s +/- 1 standard deviation
 

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Nevermind. I thought I was good at math, but this Cincy guy is like Rainman gone Vegas.
 

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THE SHRINK said:
Incidentally, the hardest course I ever took was Organic Chemistry...

I had to cheat my way to a C or I'd have flunked it...

THE SHRINK
Kenny,

You had to really hate Inorganic Chemistry if Organic was hard for you. My son just graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and some of the courses he took were really amazing.


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I handicapped harness races and football in Math and civics. I rolled craps in Auto shop, dealt blackjack in U.S. History. Best math, 5 to 10 or join the Navy for 4. Both son and father math geniuses, me street hustler. Punk, hoodlum even a hooligan. Hope no one holds that against me...

Best Wishes...OF:howdy:
 
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THE SHRINK said:
Incidentally, the hardest course I ever took was Organic Chemistry...

I had to cheat my way to a C or I'd have flunked it...

THE SHRINK
That ain't no ****---I somehow made it through that class, and that was after MASSIVE hours studying.

Math was a no brainer to me up until Calc 951 which I swear to this day was taught in a different language, because I still have absofukkinglutely no idea WTF they were trying to prove.
 

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