Hard work and the ability to produce the wright answer produce A's at the calculus level. You can get straight A's and still not understand some of the fundamental basis for what you are doing. The mechanics of derivating, intergrating, and the change in the graphcal representation is the main lesson and the regurgatation of those mechanics is what gets A's. Of course this is all relative to your learning style.

Did you take buisness calculus or analytical geometry calculus? The math is the same for both but they take a different approach and have different application.

How about backing off the not-understanding bit, you donkey! Perhaps I don't articulate the theory to your liking, but I understand perfectly. Analytically, the area of a two dimentional surface or the volume of a solid approches it's true value as the sample thickness of the variable approches zero in integration.

I took Analitical Geometry Calculus, as well as Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. I loved studying math.

I am sure glad there are folks with brains like you folks to figger this crap out.

Were it left up to me we would still be using our fingers to count how many fish have been caught on any given day.

Mike

p.s. in my case, this year, that number (on 10 of 13 days fishing this year) is the smallest imaginable, and all one needs to do to digitally express this number is to connect the thumb and index finger in a circle.

Sol, Nofish is right. Raising a number between -1 and 1 to a negative power results in a large number, not zero. 0.1^infinity is zero, but 0.1^-infinity is infinity.

It seems I may have a new Little Buddy!

The heck with all this math talk, when Sol gets water to run uphill, we will have reached engineering triumph!

Sorry, Sol I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking you. I get that a lot on this forum. Sarcasm and attitude are diffucult to interpret in text so if you give me a mean attitude when you read, then that is what I am to you.

I thought I was trying to fill in some blanks and help you out. I'll agree that there are articulation differences between our calculus education. Therefore we are probably arguing the same point and that never goes anywhere. From my experience overconfidence and blind faith in what you "know" or "understand" can get you into trouble (I'm not just talking math).

Try teaching math or engineering and dealing with a multitude of people that think thay have it all figured out and articulate it differently. On top of that try responding with them with questions sent over e-mail (boy oh boy). You will find that sometimes you offer help and solutions and they get mad (happens all the time). I am even guilty of this. JMPE.

Spelling is woman's work. I always figured my secratery would take care of it. I was wrong, she can't spell either.

Welcome to the GUN show.

Nofish,

Sol doesn't have to get water to run uphill. They already figured that out in California, where water flows uphill, toward money. Math and physics become a lot simpler when you make the right connections. They didn't mention the money part when I was in college.

Sg

Fuc%in' negative exponents. #$%&^@

You're right, I'm wrong. I forgot aboput that little anomaly. Sorry NOFISH.

Thats not all:

I'm
Computer dependent
Calculator dependent
Spell check dependent
Auto correct dependent
Plus the keyboard is small for my big hands.

Grammar and spelling, you say?

He even put the proper number of spaces between his "?" and his