Calculus/Geometry appreciation thread - Motivate and make your brain work!

[NaggotFigger]

https://blog.prepscholar.com/hardest-sat-math-questions
Solve this as you can, and provide your own math problems and solve here
E.G: 24x2+25x−47ax−2=−8x−3−53ax−2

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

In 33 years on God's green earth I have not once used anything other than the four basic operations of arithmetic (with the occasional expotentiation) outside of a classroom.
Calculate deez nuts, nerds.

 

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my math skills peaked around this:

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Without a goal beyond solving the problem for the sake of the numbers, mathematics is a glorified autistic sandbox.
The lack of context drained my interest and I made a hard turn into sciences because at least there's purpose in it.

 

[Mark Robinson BussyLiquor]

I present to you, NIGGERMATH:

Yo shawty
Those Oblate Spheres
Sho' nuff be lookin' fine
(Chorus: "And the people say, BOOBA!")

My hand be finna
Grab yo' spheres
On a Geodesic line

Shortest possible distance, yeah
Grab them titties, LIKE I SHOULD!
Don't need no Distance Formula
Pythagoras gotcha good!

 

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[The Evil Midnight Bomber]

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In 33 years on God's green earth I have not once used anything other than the four basic operations of arithmetic (with the occasional expotentiation) outside of a classroom.
Calculate deez nuts, nerds.

My boss recently "promoted" me to the hand manufacturing part of our division and now I have to bend steel bars into complicated shapes using the engineering blueprint. Until that point I never thought I'd use this shit ever again either but now I'm reliving my high school nightmares.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Doing some simple computational geometry right now.

 

[Safir]

https://blog.prepscholar.com/hardest-sat-math-questions

The page doesn't load correctly for me (no math symbols, options for some questions are missing, but from what I can understand, it looks like some kiddie shit.

By Russian standards, only polynomial division would be grade 9 (now grade 10 because of 4 years of primary school, eternal kindergarten, "we must raise qualified consoomers", fuck this shit) -- not HARD, mind you, just not learned until then (although math school students would make a correct guess about what it might mean), -- and the grain silo question would be likewise grade 9 10 IF you had to know the volume formulas because it's when stereometry starts.

But all of those are "did you go to school every once in a while" level, not "can you apply the knowledge" level. It's not something that can serve as the basis for picking college applicants, there'd be OVER 9000 applicants per slot.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

I'd let Hannah Fry find my slope intercept if you know what I'm saying. Anyway, here's her telling me how unattractive I am.

(Although even a base level Bayesian analysis of that data just shows that attractive males used OKCupid a lot less than ugly ones).

 

[Grub]

I used to have to do a lot of geometry when I did CNC work. Not so much these days though. Now it's all superheat and subcool calculations or static pressures and air volume and shit like that.

Well I guess there's still a little bit of geometry. Like today, I only had a 4 3/4" holesaw but I needed to make a 5" inch hole through the side of a house. So I needed to make the hole bigger with the sawzall but I had to make it line up perfectly with the one I'd drilled and cut above it so when I shoved the 5" cylinder inside the circularish hole the square on the end of the cylinder was perfectly lined up with the square on the end of the other cylinder. See look at all those shapes and shit. Fucking geometry.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I'm currently focused on learning Spanish right now. But I know a little calculus to get by.

 

[PunkinMan]

The closest I ever got to doing geometry math was making maps for hammer lmao.