jf951 1 #1 October 23, 2010 who suffered through calculus. i feel your pain oh how i want to go tell calc to fuck it self, but i have too much respect for the people who actually figured this crap out. leibniz and newton prolly enjoy a holy brew up there watchin all the college students over the past 300 years or so get raked over the coals by this stuff, jerks.Jump more, Bitch less. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #2 October 23, 2010 >>>>>> You just brought back a lot of bad memories. . . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #3 October 23, 2010 Quote >>>>>> You just brought back a lot of bad memories. . . Just made me glad I dropped out of highschool! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amstalder 0 #4 October 23, 2010 Quote who suffered through calculus. i feel your pain oh how i want to go tell calc to fuck it self, but i have too much respect for the people who actually figured this crap out. leibniz and newton prolly enjoy a holy brew up there watchin all the college students over the past 300 years or so get raked over the coals by this stuff, jerks. Three years of calc later (and two years after my last calc class), I hope I never see any of that shit ever again. Kudos to those two men, but still Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #5 October 23, 2010 Has it ever in real life been handy to know?(If yer not a rocket scientist or equal that is) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 212 #6 October 23, 2010 Quote Has it ever in real life been handy to know?(If yer not a rocket scientist or equal that is) I use it in the construction field all the time.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #7 October 23, 2010 Quote Quote Has it ever in real life been handy to know?(If yer not a rocket scientist or equal that is) I use it in the construction field all the time. I have worked construction.Even drawn blueprints.....I thought what I was doing was just math... was that calculus? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #8 October 23, 2010 BTW, I am not putting anyone down, My wife has her master's , in one subject and bacholars in a few more...She Amazes me with her knowledge, (and that she married a dumb fuckin biker) but she says constantly she never uses many of the things they made her take... (I bet she can even spell everything I just wrote) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jf951 1 #9 October 23, 2010 i actually find it is one of the most applicable fields of math, once you know it and understand its concepts there are alot of things you encounter in every day life where you can see how calculus was and could be used for it. its also the foundation for many fields of work, business, economics, physics, biology... one big part of it, very simplified down, up until calc the majority of math can only be used in a "stationary" setting, but once you incorporate calc you can begin to apply movements to those same models and understand how things elapse over time. at the same time once you put things into motion so to speak you can look at the rate at which they are changing at an instantaneous point in that time frame haha i hope that makes sinceJump more, Bitch less. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyrider 0 #10 October 23, 2010 Well, like I said, I dropped out very earlier, but I made a living building and designing motorcycles,,(befoe it was kewl), which require mucho math, so more than likely, I used it, and had no clue it had a name... Especially building and machining engines! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #11 October 23, 2010 Quote Well, like I said, I dropped out very earlier, but I made a living building and designing motorcycles,,(befoe it was kewl), which require mucho math, so more than likely, I used it, and had no clue it had a name... Especially building and machining engines! If you didn't know if you were using it you probably weren't. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
muff528 3 #12 October 23, 2010 Has Billy spoken to you about your avatar? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jf951 1 #13 October 23, 2010 Quote BTW, I am not putting anyone down, My wife has her master's , in one subject and bacholars in a few more...She Amazes me with her knowledge, (and that she married a dumb fuckin biker) but she says constantly she never uses many of the things they made her take... (I bet she can even spell everything I just wrote) lol i didnt think you were, alot of ppl ask that question. Quote Has Billy spoken to you about your avatar? haha yes a many many times, ye usually makes the joke that mine is the moment before his.Jump more, Bitch less. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TriGirl 268 #14 October 23, 2010 I'm one of those people you like to hate -- was in Calc 3 my freshman year of college. Loved it. However, I wasn't able to transition well to Diff Eq. Plus, I never did get the hang of statistics! See the upside, and always wear your parachute! -- Christopher Titus Shut Up & Jump! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skipbelt 0 #15 October 23, 2010 what do you mean by "you people" ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutumbo 0 #16 October 23, 2010 all calculus and all that high level math BS is just the remnants of a giant pissing contest between 2 very old and very dead dudes. you never use 3/4 of that crap unless you actually teach it in college. im no genius but my dad is a nuclear physicist(sadly the brains of the family skipped my dumb ass), and he still has to sit down and figure out some of that shit, since it had been YEARS since even he had seen/used it.Thanatos340(on landing rounds)-- Landing procedure: Hand all the way up, Feet and Knees Together and PLF soon as you get bitch slapped by a planet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildcard451 0 #17 October 23, 2010 Calc was simple. Then again, I was a theoretical math major, and didn't really hate Calculus until I got to Real Analysis, which is proving why the theorems in Calculus work. That class was a pain in the ass. I miss doing some of the stuff that I did my thesis in, but my degree/thesis had precisely ZERO real world applications -- other than to get me good grades to get into medical school. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #18 October 23, 2010 Depending on your field of endeavor, calc may be useful, such as rates, areas under curves, etc. As an air traffic controller, I don't use anything above basic arithmetic story problems. Well, maybe a little geometry too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jbag 0 #19 October 23, 2010 Quote Depending on your field of endeavor, calc may be useful, such as rates, areas under curves, etc. As an air traffic controller, I don't use anything above basic arithmetic story problems. Well, maybe a little geometry too. ive done your job on my Droid phone, you just click and drag the route of the airplane, not that hard! =D...dont let 2 aircraft hit and you're fine, my record is 84IHYD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mutumbo 0 #20 October 23, 2010 Quote Quote Depending on your field of endeavor, calc may be useful, such as rates, areas under curves, etc. As an air traffic controller, I don't use anything above basic arithmetic story problems. Well, maybe a little geometry too. ive done your job on my Droid phone, you just click and drag the route of the airplane, not that hard! =D...dont let 2 aircraft hit and you're fine, my record is 84 heehee mine is 292waaay too much free timeThanatos340(on landing rounds)-- Landing procedure: Hand all the way up, Feet and Knees Together and PLF soon as you get bitch slapped by a planet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,048 #21 October 23, 2010 Hi Tri, We always said that Diff Eq seperated the students from the spectators. An old math instructor once said that Calculus was math and anything before it was just arithmetic. After I graduated, I got into Contract Management for the next 30 yrs and never used math again; but I could understand when someone was trying to smoke something passed me. JerryBaumchen Mech. Engr. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_squared431 0 #22 October 23, 2010 I hate math! who da hell needs to use it other den dem educated peeps. Really I am not a fan of math. I am good at it just never enjoyed it. TPM Sister#130ONTIG#1 I love vodka.I love vodka cause it rhymes with Tuaca~LisaH You having a clean thought is like billyvance having a clean post.iluvtofly Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnMitchell 14 #23 October 24, 2010 Quote ive done your job on my Droid phone, you just click and drag the route of the airplane, not that hard! =D...dont let 2 aircraft hit and you're fine, my record is 84 My record is a gazillion. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vskydiver 0 #24 October 24, 2010 Quote Quote ive done your job on my Droid phone, you just click and drag the route of the airplane, not that hard! =D...dont let 2 aircraft hit and you're fine, my record is 84 My record is a gazillion. And you have awards and plaques all over our walls to prove it! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
grannyinthesky 0 #25 October 24, 2010 I guess I should drop by Bonfire more often. Here you are talking about my favorite (well, not quite favorite since I started skydiving) thing and I didn't even know it. Calc is where math starts getting fun. Like Jerry B said.. anything before calc is arithmetic and that's yucky stuff. "safety first... and What the hell..... safety second, Too!!! " ~~jmy POPS #10490 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
