Sounds like an orange cat
aka @JWBananas@startrek.website aka @JWBananas@lemmy.world aka @JWBananas@kbin.social
Sounds like an orange cat
Only according to that stupid bot
I feel like this belongs here.
Thanks for the alternative explanation. Completing the square never made much sense to me either, so I never would have arrived there.
Hurr durr what if I just multiply the whole thing by 4a for some reason? Oh and then after that I’ll add b² to both sides, just for shits and giggles. And for good measure, I’ll move a few numbers from one side to the other, and that leaves me with 4a²x² + 4abx + b² = b² - 4ac.
And then golly gee! Wouldn’t you know it? That just happens to let the left side factor neatly into (2ax + b)²! So I’ll just take the square root of both sides…
No!
No!
Bad!
This is fucking voodoo. I hate this shit. It’s like trigonometric substitution.
Math is procedural. Math is algorithmic. Math is repeatable.
“If these numbers looked a little different than they do, I could solve this. Oh, wow! If I just sprinkle these magic values into my problem, everything works out great!”
Oh yes, I can see how if you just plug in this shit you pulled out of your ass, everything works out great! But when you aren’t around for a fecal transfer, I have no idea how to come up with that.
I was top of my class in math. But that voodoo shit never made any sense to me.
And there is absolute value of zero chance I could figure all that out in the heat of the moment if I forgot the quadratic formula. I had to work backwards from the formula to even get all that in the first place.
I’ve been hearing the Donkey Kong song in my head for the last 6 hours. If you know how to make it stop, I’m all ears.
Except in glacier, because English is fucked.
I can. But I can’t hear it at all.
A paste of baking soda and water on cotton balls worked well for me, albeit tedious.
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At this point the sheer complexity is too much of a barrier to entry. You are talking about centuries of man-hours to even approach par.
I’m going with the HD-DVD encryption key. It just feels right to go full circle.
Skibidi Ohio rizz bro.