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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

How fake do you want it?

Yes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

x = arcsin (kn - 1)

I've solved it. There you go. I hope you use this solution for something good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

WTF bro, There is 3 variables.

Wait? NVM Wait?

Today I did Calculus for 6 hour straight. So, don't mind me I am just tired.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I want to believe this is real, but I'm having trouble deciphering how one would "solve" this equation given no variable is referenced outside of the question and k is already isolated and terms simplified.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

i’m guessing they want you to solve for x by rearranging and then taking arcsin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Considering the handwriting, it's probably all written by the same person. But even if it wasn't, it is very badly written if you had to solve it by making assumptions, imo.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There's 3 variables and 1 equation. This is unsolvable.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 12 hours ago

Since we're just making shit up anyway

Assume k=0 and n is the last natural number. Solved.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You can reform the term until it reads x =

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Looks correct. However it’s only valid for n ≠ 0.

B

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

if n = 0 then k = ∞ and just about any value of x works in this case. however x = arcsin(nk -1) still doesn’t work since 0 * ∞ is not defined. so i think the B grade is fair.

(this is all assuming we’re working on the riemann sphere)

[–] [email protected] 50 points 15 hours ago

Grading your own work is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I cannot actually believe that back in the day, I understood what these were.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

so you don't understand sin anymore? or division?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

You should sin more, 'cos you'll go to hell and there you can get a tan

[–] Kecessa 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't had to do anything with sin, cos or tan in over 20 years and even back then it's a miracle I managed to pass my advanced math course considering I never understood what they were because it was so badly explained to us...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Cos and Sin just return the X or Y values respectively around a circle of radius 1. So if my line starts at 0 degrees, X=1 Cos(0)=1 Sin(0)=0. I'll leave it to the reader to try 90 degrees.

[–] Kecessa 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

sin(x) and cos(x) return the side lengths of a triangle with hypotenuse 1 and angle x, like so:

I also was never taught this, which sucks because it's such a useful concept.

You can verify that if the angle (x) was 0, cos(x) would be 1, and sin(x) would be 0. If the angle was 90 degrees (vertical), then cos(x) would be 0 and sin(x) would be 1. If the angle was 45 degrees, cos(x) and sin(x) would have the same value, because the triangle sides would have the same length.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

But why?

See, I was taught this, but no one could every answer why sine and cosine worked the way they did.

This definition just explains how they work with triangles. What's the actual definition of each, and how was that derived? I can apply them all day long yet I still can't tell you what either one means.

I had the same issues with different kinds of equations, no one ever explained why you'd do a certain thing in a given step (e.g. Quadratic) even when I asked, repeatedly. The answer was always "you just do". Well that doesn't help with knowing when to apply a rule.

And that was my experience with any math, right through college (3 universities). Most teachers suck, but holy shit math teachers are down right moronic. They can't understand why students don't get it. Well, try actually teaching something for a fucking change.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Would only work if the numerator was 𝑛 + sin 𝑥

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

That's for AP. Elementary logic let's you divide willy nilly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Facebook outrage post

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There's a teacher with no sense of humour

[–] [email protected] 41 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

There's no teacher. Everything on that paper was most likely written by a single person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I don't, it's just speculation, hence "most likely". I see similar handwriting and not a very plausible problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

The ink does have a different color

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

All the "s"s do look very similar.

Source: I am the world's foremost forensic handwriting expert