I didn't doubt that they would pick another doomsday clock to follow...but so soon? It seems literally as if it's "Oh, the world didn't end? Move on to the next doomsday..." I've survived at least half a dozen, if not more, apocalypses. And I will keep adding them onto my survival list at ...

Taalit wrote:Where can I find online lessons for whatever people learn *after* a standard set of calculus courses in college?

Generally known as "Online Advanced Calculus Courses" at some worldwide university. The only problem is it costs.

[sarcasm]Oh yes, after I blatantly shunned the 21.12.2012 end-of-the-world date and went out of my way with people over the globe to parody those who did believe in that bullcrap, I CLEARLY now have changed my mind, believing that the world will end in 2015! >_>[/sarcasm] CITIZENS OF EARTH! GROW THE...

That was most likely what we were supposed to do, I remember working with the determinants early in the course. Determinants? Nah, that's matrix methods, man. Which would also work. (But would be rather redundant, since this is a simple 2x2 system. :P) Isn't the part under the square root in the qu...

Anteroinen wrote:That was most likely what we were supposed to do, I remember working with the determinants early in the course.

Determinants? Nah, that's matrix methods, man. Which would also work. (But would be rather redundant, since this is a simple 2x2 system. )

...but it just got stuck with a<½x^2+x and then I run out of time. Alternatively, using the method you were using, all you would have to do was solve for x, and then figure out what values of a would generate a complex x. x^2+2x+2a=0 Using the simplified quadratic formula, -1+/- sqrt(1-2a) as long ...

I had a math problem in my math test, which, alas, I couldn't solve on time. It went like this: with which values of the parametre a does the line y=x+a not cut the parabola y=-½x^2. I drew the problem out, and from that figured I could've calculated the lowest possible value of a, if I took the eq...

Isobel The Sorceress wrote:Fractals =/= chemistry.

Fractals are often used to describe the aggregation of nanoparticles, and in general, any system of atoms or molecules where no order can be found. We break them into systems of fractals.
Which is using fractals for chemistry.

Erendis42 wrote:http://xaos.sourceforge.net/ there you go, some artsy math stuff

...in my field, more like artsy chemistry stuff.

Rooster5man wrote:Exactly.

And yeah, it wouldn't hurt to try, I really hope for our sake it's effective. I could message his PastelStories FaceBook account too, see if that helps.

That could be our backup plan...once again, it would have to be in numbers though.