| |
In lugnet.space, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.space, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.space, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
> >
> > > Sweet! That would be *so cool*! Imagine sitting out on the deck
> > > looking up at the full moon, and all of a sudden it starts falling
> > > towards you. If we ignore the gravitational damage to the earth
> > > (tides, crust stresses, etc) and the fact that the earth is still
> > > rotating, how long would you get to watch the moon before it landed
> > > on you? The first person to answer will get a cookie(*)!
> >
> > I get 1 hour, 13 minutes. Or 2 hours, 26 minutes. If I could remember the
> > derivitive of y = x^2, I'd be more precise.
>
> That'd be dy/dx = 2x. (I knew that calculus'd come in handy one day!)
>
> ROSCO
Calculus, yet another form of mathematics that I am unable to do in my life.
Jesse Long
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
195 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
