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#1 Re: Help Me ! » Problem involving Taylors remainder theorem » 2010-10-10 09:55:50
The tail of an alternating series is always less than the first neglected term
Could you elaborate please? I'm not sure what you're talking about. Which part of the series is the 'tail'?
#2 Re: Help Me ! » Equations with parenthesis? » 2010-10-09 02:21:50
Also, is not 2 dollars and 40 cents preferable to 12 / 5 dollars?
Okay - when you put it like that, I see the convenience.
However, it'll just get more complicated for further use, and especially in advanced math. Fractions like 1/2 makes sense if you substitute with apples and babies, however something like x/(x+n)! hardly makes sense in "the real world", which is why I think it would be good practice just to leave the fractions as fractions, instead of chopping them up in whole numbers and smaller fractions.
TC is probably not going to need my killer fraction for anything. I was just trying trying to make a general statement for why it's "bad practice".
Never said it was wrong though. Keep up the good work bobbym 
#3 Re: Help Me ! » Problem involving Taylors remainder theorem » 2010-10-07 19:22:04
I think it needs fixing 
Edit: you fixed it before I could post.
#4 Re: Help Me ! » Problem involving Taylors remainder theorem » 2010-10-07 19:05:18
Yes. I think that's what the problem asks of me.
#5 Help Me ! » Problem involving Taylors remainder theorem » 2010-10-07 04:00:53
- Fzang
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Okay, so I have this
for x > 1
In English the text says "Explain, from Taylors remainder theorem that *above statement is true (?)* for x > 1"
Tell me if it didn't quite made sense. I'm having some problems translating math language.
Can anyone get me started? I have no idea where I'm supposed to start at, or what I'm doing.
#6 Re: Help Me ! » Equations with parenthesis? » 2010-10-07 03:53:53
Why are you creating mixed fractions?? Blasphemy -- and serves no helpful purpose that I can think of.
#7 Re: Introductions » Hey forum! Im new and I hope you can help me survive for years to come » 2010-10-07 02:49:19
Actually, I do. I'll get to them in a minute, when I've finished writing down the solution to another problem
#8 Re: Introductions » Hey forum! Im new and I hope you can help me survive for years to come » 2010-10-07 02:15:02
You may wish you were in one of those otherworldly dimensions after you see how untangible tangible problems are.
Intangible
sorry, low kick. This is a math forum.
But you're right. The hardest questions often need the simplest solutions... and the other way around at times, unfortunately.
#9 Introductions » Hey forum! Im new and I hope you can help me survive for years to come » 2010-10-07 01:48:09
- Fzang
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Hey guys. I've started studying biochemistry at uni, and for the first couple of months we have a math intro course. In this course we're bombarded with excruciatingly hard assignments, where you often don't even understand the question.
Luckily I came across this place (!) and I hope some of you might be able to help me out I'm that kind of person who understands tangible problems, and not some intersection of some graph in some otherworldly dimension, so I could use a little help at times 
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