Math is truly gay

[ex]

Fuck fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK MATH.  I seriously want to rip the head off of a math nerd for fun.  FUCK MATH.  FUCK LINEAR EQUATIONS.  FUCK THESE FORMULAS AND FUCK THESE GRAPHS.

I know the Greeks invented a lot of the math we still use today.  If I had a time machine, I'd travel back in it and slice the heads off these motherfuckers.  It's like they set it up to be INTENTIONALLY confusing and abstruse.  Fuck math and fuck every nerd who's good at it.

[soh]

What math are you talking about? I'm guessing Elementary Algebra by the looks of this post.
Btw Linear Equations are simple :TRIG_TROLL: 

[ex]

Only to a math nerd.  This shit is like pulling teeth to normal people.  What really fucks me is fractions in this shit...fractions are gay. 

[soh]

  You just match it up Don't even think of it as a number, just replace it with colors instead. That's how I do my math sometimes :weed_brownies:

[ex]

Dude if I tried to do math in any other state than stone-cold sober, I wouldn't get a single part of the first problem done.  Well, maybe 1 problem would get done per hour.  lol

If math is a strong point for you, feel blessed.  Almost everyone else is not set up to do math well at all.  In fact, I just found out that my ability to handle pre-algebra has set me above 97% of the people out there.  That's scary as hell when you think about it...that means a good proportion of the population struggles with addition and subtraction.   

[soh]

My friends bring the brownies every now and then when we're in the engineering lab

I don't see it as 'Math'. I kind of just see it as a second language. Don't do the math, be it!
 
Anyway, I suggest you read your book. It has much to explain. What book is it anyway?

It's true though, a good proportion of the population does struggle in math; it's terrible.

[|iR|Focalor]

Well if you're still in high school or not in college yet, I would highly recommend buckling the fuck down and learning it, no matter what it takes. Because when you get to college, the plain old remedial math course, the lowest form of math class they have, will have you 900% lost. You gotta have those high school algebra 1 & 2, calculus, and trig classes to have ANY FUCKING IDEA what to do with the shit they give you in college. I spent most of my high school career fucking off, flunking, and not paying attention. My junior and senior years, I got my shit together and studied up, but by then I was already left behind in math. I was even making A's in math for once, but I was just too far behind from years of screwing around to have any hope of catching up to where I should've been. So when I got to college... made A's in everything except math. Flunked the same idiot math class TWICE, was put on academic notice that a 3rd failure in any course would have me out for a semester, so I didn't even give it a third shot, I walked and never came back.

Trust me, if you wanna bust your ass for a joke of a paycheck and be someone elses shit shoveler the rest of your life, don't go to college and don't get a degree. You gotta have that degree to have any kind of comfortable life.

[fdrjk]

Linear equations are easy.

[Sgt. Dick]

EX,

I am assuming you are taking college courses.  What field are you planning to go into 

[yahoo]

EX,

I am assuming you are taking college courses.  What field are you planning to go into 

prolly physics major

[haunted]

lol. i'm sure that was a troll, but i'm a physics major and currently taking general physics 2, astrophysics, etc. + with labs. you have to complete calc 2 to even take gen. physics 2.

[fdrjk]

The problems in the other thread were things like linear equations. For god's sake, I'm learning that stuff already solely as review from the last two years and I can do that shit in my head.

I know the Greeks invented a lot of the math we still use today.  If I had a time machine, I'd travel back in it and slice the heads off these motherfuckers. 

Off topic, but by doing that, you'd also set back history by hundreds; possibly thousands of years. 

[Barton]

I think if you really tried and paid attention back then when you first were learning it, algebra would be easy for you. Most people who complain about math really are the ones who never tried to understand in the first place, I think.

[haunted]

If you have a TI-83 or better, here's a little trick in case you didn't know ex. Teachers certainly don't show you or want you to know this function...

press the button math, then scroll down to 'solver' or hit 0.

It displays the equation 0= so, to equate it to zero you would do this...example:

3x^3 = -13x^2 + 10x

so you just make it = 0 by doing this:

3x^3 + 13x^2 - 10x = 0

you can enter that in the calculator's equation solver function and it'll solve for X, but there's a catch. obviously there's going to be 3 values for x given the polynomial. so after you enter the equation and it prompts you a "Guess", it's going to display the closest value for X to that guess. If you can imagine what the graph looks like for something like that it's easy... and just from looking at it, you know 0 has to be one of the x values(plug 0 in for x, you obviously get 0)... the others are 2/3 and -5(don't forget to put negatives in your guesses... you could have gotten both of those by using -10 and 10 as your 2 guesses).

factoring it produces the same results obviously,

x(3x - 2)(x+5) ... then set them individually to 0

x=0 , 3x-2=0 , x+5 = 0..

0, 2/3, -5 , same answers

[fdrjk]

Oh shit, we haven't learned cubes yet. :< Guess you're on your own, ex.