[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)
George Adkins
george at webbastard.org
Tue Apr 16 18:42:32 CDT 2002
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 07:07 pm, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:15:31PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Uh-huh. I'll forgive you for that if you forgive me for being
> > defensive. I've always been self-conscious about my inability to
> > comprehend mathematics, and i guess I always will be.
>
> i'm not great with math either. however, i do sorta understand things.
> then they tried teaching me calc. uhm. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT? makes
> NO sense to me.
>
Don't get too bent out of shape, for half the world, the Calculus is
incomprehensible until they learn the epsilon-delta proof. After learning
the epsilon-delta proof, it's incomprehensible for most of the other half.
George
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