Who knew there’d be so much math involved in breakfast cereal!
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So does that mean the Rice Krispies guys are just little jerks…lol
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I picked a bad week to give up calculus.
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Any time is a bad time to give up on Maths. Maths makes it happens.
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One of my few major educational regrets. We took algebra and trig out to Jr. college level in my Navy training but no calculus. So many times this has handicapped me in my STEM interests.
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You can always pick up a calculus book and learn 
as long as you stay up with it.
I majored in math, took all the way to Calc3…
But since I dont use it…its all pretty much gone…lol
I homeschool and my 11 year old started algebra this year…I remember bits and pieces😒
That whole “use it or lose it” definitly applied here.
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Ah. Multivariable calc. The bane of linear thinkers everywhere (but especially physics 
). I remember the kids who took it once to audit the class and once for credit.
But if you’re able to conceptualize in 3 dimensions (or more) I don’t think it was harder than Calc 2. It gives you a definite leg up in design for CNC (& lasers) being able to visualize before building.
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Sadly I’ve had to devise my own way of doing 3 dimensional design but unfortunately it’s probably a lot slower than if I sat down and taught myself how to do it the right way…lol
Somehow I have developed the ability to think and visualise in up to 4 dimensions without ever learning calc.
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I actually enjoyed the calculus classes from college days. But I don’t use calculus or algebra in design, and I’ve forgotten most, (if not all), of what I used to know about it. (Use it or lose it.)
Trig…definitely. Geometry…absolutely. Basic math…unfortunately.
(Thank God for calculators, I can’t add two and two and come up with four.)
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At 57 I have learned to live with this handicap. The use it or loose it is for sure I could not simplify a polynomial with a gun held to my head today. Sometimes in reading stuff it is enough to have once understood something, though, you still have a sort of holographic understanding.
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Ooo thanks
I couldn’t do it with a gun to my head either 
But… with a little time to think and a pencil I might remember.
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Remember what?
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Can’t remember if what I was trying to remember was what I was actually trying to remember or if it was something else.
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I used to be forgetful, now I’m just …
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