Math Is Fun Forum

w00t that's the first time i've quoted someone!

if you lived forever you would become infinitely intelligent....rrright?

Well, I don't really believe in life after death, but rather reincarnation (im not a buddhist) and the recycling of fundamental elements. I would probably volunteer to live forever.

Ok, here's what.
Everytime you wander into a black-hole or get crushed by a meteorite or fall off a skyscraper or die of chocolate poisoning you respawn at a respawn point like in games!
And for the question's sake, let's say the universe's cosmology just stays exactly the same it is today forever, with a spherical shape so that it is impossible to reach the end of the universe

omg the picture doesn't even show doesn't it

heeeeere we go:

Excellent sites, lots of interesting stuff

Yes there is

Wow... they estimated the distance to the sun with a margin of error of 30 metres!?!
o_o
Doesn't the distance change alot due to gravity?

What I would do is firstly arrange the set of numbers in ascending order. Then, cross out the first and last number, then the second and second last number, then the third and third last number, then the fourth and fourth last number, and so forth until you reach the middle number(s) of your number set.
If there is one number in the middle, it is the median.
If there are two numbers in the middle, the average of the two is the median.

In a nutshell, differentiation allows you to find the slope of any function.
it is written as

or

or

or

The simplest of the many formulas is:

, then

which works for polynomials without brackets and without division signs.

Say that you want to find the slope at x=4 for y=x²:

So the slope is at x=4 is 2(4) = 8.

If you want to find the slope at x=-8 for y=x²+x-1:

So the slope at x=-8 is

≈ -786431

You'll notice that you can use it for straight line equations too:

O_O ...

Someone's created mathematical solutions to not getting eaten by sharks...