Re: Time for a new FAQ? [ plus a tiny fraction of my ascii collection... ;) ]
From Nana <tss...@freenet.calgary.ab.ca>
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· 5 Nov 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Matthew Thomas wrote: > More specific, but less accurate. The slope could be getting *smaller* > and *smaller* as x approaches 0, if the line is pointing *downward* to > begin with; in that case the slope would be approaching *negative* > infinity. So when the line reaches vertical, you can argue equally well > that it has a slope of positive infinity or that it has a slope of > negative infinity, depending on which side you came from. Having two > slopes at once isn't mathematically allowed, so mathematicians rightly > say that the slope is `undefined'. (A similar thing happens for 0/0; the D'oh! I was thinking of functions... Never mind... > /\_\ Matthew Thomas, who does university maths (so don't argue! :-) - Nana (who also does university math, but still gets confused around shiny things.... Like the computer monitor... ) ,x{{}, Ts97 xQQ}}}}}x{{))}oo (QQQQ{}}{qq}}{{}@ xx{{QQQqq{{{QQQQqq "Bad Nana! Go sit in the corner!"
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b217f9de36ff9682 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: Nana <tss...@freenet.calgary.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Time for a new FAQ? [ plus a tiny fraction of my ascii collection... ;) ] Date: 1997/11/05 Message-ID: <63r18b$8c...@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287270688 References: <345...@spamfree.land> <345...@on.spammer> <345...@slip.net> <345...@slip.net> <63mf1k$n9...@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> <345...@spamfree.land> Organization: Calgary Free-Net Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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