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In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch |
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| tadchem |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:25 am |
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On May 1, 4:09 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch
You are pushing my patience to the infinitesimal limit...
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:39 am |
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On May 1, 1:25 pm, tadchem <tadc...@comcast.net> wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 4:09 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch
You are pushing my patience to the infinitesimal limit...
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations. |
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| Dave |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:42 am |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:46 am |
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On May 1, 1:42 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
For all curves except defined binomials. Real world curves can only be
estimations.
Mitch Raemsch |
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| porky_pig_jr@my-deja.com |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:50 am |
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On May 1, 5:46 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 1:42 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
On May 1, 4:39 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true.
Dave
For all curves except defined binomials. Real world curves can only be
estimations.
Mitch Raemsch
If we really speak of "real world curves", those curves are of a
brownian motion kind, nowhere differentiable and thus having no
tangent at any point. Calculus does not deal with that type of curves
anyway. Also what do you mean by "for all curves except defined
binomials"? |
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| Guest |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:28 pm |
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On May 1, 1:50 pm, "porky_pig...@my-deja.com" <porky_pig...@my-
deja.com> wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 5:46 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 1, 1:42 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
On May 1, 4:39 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true.
Dave
For all curves except defined binomials. Real world curves can only be
estimations.
Mitch Raemsch
If we really speak of "real world curves", those curves are of a
brownian motion kind, nowhere differentiable and thus having no
tangent at any point. Calculus does not deal with that type of curves
anyway. Also what do you mean by "for all curves except defined
binomials"?
Are you saying that calculus doesn't apply to changing real world
curves?
Only unchanging curves are nowhere differentiable pork. |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:29 pm |
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On May 1, 4:24 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" <bobkol...@comcast.net> wrote:
Quote: mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Review the limit concept and rethink the matter.
Bob Kolker
Unclear limits abound.
Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008 |
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| porky_pig_jr@my-deja.com |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:13 pm |
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On May 1, 8:28 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 1:50 pm, "porky_pig...@my-deja.com" <porky_pig...@my-
deja.com> wrote:
On May 1, 5:46 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 1, 1:42 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
On May 1, 4:39 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true.
Dave
For all curves except defined binomials. Real world curves can only be
estimations.
Mitch Raemsch
If we really speak of "real world curves", those curves are of a
brownian motion kind, nowhere differentiable and thus having no
tangent at any point. Calculus does not deal with that type of curves
anyway. Also what do you mean by "for all curves except defined
binomials"?
Are you saying that calculus doesn't apply to changing real world
curves?
Only unchanging curves are nowhere differentiable pork.
sorry I didn't realize I'm dealing with a clueless moron who keeps
posting the same inane messages over and over. |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:18 pm |
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On May 1, 3:31 pm, "Paul Hovnanian P.E." <p...@hovnanian.com> wrote:
Quote: mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 1, 1:25 pm, tadchem <tadc...@comcast.net> wrote:
On May 1, 4:09 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch
You are pushing my patience to the infinitesimal limit...
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true. If an exact solution can be derived, then only one calculation
is needed.
That' is the point exact solutions don't apply to real world problems.
Limits are approximations if not obviously guessable.
Exact solutions remain in the realm of binomials.
Mitch Raemsch
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| Uncle Al |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:45 pm |
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mitch.nicolas.raemsch@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:
In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch
Idiot.
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
Dunning-Kruger effect (2000 Ig Nobel Prize): ignorance more
frequently begets confidence than does knowledge
1) Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of
skill.
2) Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in
others.
3) Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their
inadequacy.
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Uncle Al
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(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2 |
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| xxein |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 4:57 pm |
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On May 1, 8:29 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 4:24 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" <bobkol...@comcast.net> wrote:
Unclear limits abound.
Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008
xxein: Yeah. We call that imagination. Not reality. |
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| Virgil |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:44 pm |
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In article
<df8e0686-197c-43c6-ad13-027f25855c4b@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
"porky_pig_jr@my-deja.com" <porky_pig_jr@my-deja.com> wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 5:46 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 1, 1:42 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@juno.com> wrote:
On May 1, 4:39 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true.
Dave
For all curves except defined binomials. Real world curves can only be
estimations.
Mitch Raemsch
If we really speak of "real world curves", those curves are of a
brownian motion kind, nowhere differentiable and thus having no
tangent at any point. Calculus does not deal with that type of curves
anyway. Also what do you mean by "for all curves except defined
binomials"?
Perhaps he is thinking of the quadratic curves: circle, ellipse,
parabola, and hyperbola, but mixed up "quadratic" with "binomial". |
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| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:51 pm |
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On May 1, 6:57 pm, xxein <xxe...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Quote: On May 1, 8:29 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
On May 1, 4:24 pm, "Robert J. Kolker" <bobkol...@comcast.net> wrote:
Unclear limits abound.
Mitch Raemsch Twice Nobel Laureate 2008
xxein: Yeah. We call that imagination. Not reality.
Imaginary math needs to be confronted.
The complex plane does not exist.
Mitch Raemsch |
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| Paul Hovnanian P.E. |
| Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:31 pm |
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mitch.nicolas.raemsch@gmail.com wrote:
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On May 1, 1:25 pm, tadchem <tadc...@comcast.net> wrote:
On May 1, 4:09 pm, mitch.nicolas.raem...@gmail.com wrote:
In order to derive a tangent line on a changing curve you must do
calculus. You must pick two points to get the the tangent line and get
the same slope. Calculus is just an estimation. You cannot become
infinitely accurate because you cannot make infinite calculations. You
could make a million!
Mitch Raemsch
You are pushing my patience to the infinitesimal limit...
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
In order to be precise calculus must make infinite calculations.
Not true. If an exact solution can be derived, then only one calculation
is needed.
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