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#1 2012-05-12 23:39:02
- amberzak
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Remembering the +C in integration
My teacher told us a nice way for students to remember to add the +C when integrating with calculus. He said call him Colin and don't forget Colin.
Has any of you teachers or students got any other ideas for how to remember?
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#2 2012-05-13 00:13:58
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
I would just tell the students the joke about the integral of 1 over cabin.
It goes something like this:
The prof asks his students if they know what the integral of 1 over cabin is with respect to cabin.
The students answered that it was log cabin.
He said that they were,of course wrong,because the answer is log cabin+C=houseboat. 
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#3 2012-05-13 00:21:47
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
Hi;
I like definite integration much better. The 2 c's get eaten up.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#4 2012-05-15 03:29:03
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
anonimnystefy, that is classic. I love it
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#5 2012-05-15 04:17:49
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
Yes,I like it very much as well.
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#6 2012-06-24 22:38:37
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
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#7 2012-06-24 23:59:40
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
It is all over the internet, so you were just bound to find another instance of it on the forum.
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#8 2012-06-25 00:14:12
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
Except I didn't 'find' it there. I posted it. Small but significant difference!
I agree it's an old joke ... probably older than you! But it's one that can only be appreciated by mathematicians and that rather appeals for some reason.
Bob
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#9 2012-06-25 00:17:41
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Remembering the +C in integration
I thought someone else posted it.
I like that one and the one about the female bartender who knows how to integrate.
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