/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15710781
I reject your proposal and decree that we shall use this image instead.

>>11048920
>I'll never get to help a little girl do her math homework and teach her about the universe while smelling that sickly sweet little girl aroma of milk and flowers.

>>11017922

I keep doing really stupid shit and i need answers as to what's causing it. So clearly /mlg/ is the best place to go.

I've been studying for a math placement test in university (I changed my major from humanities) and while going over some old stuff things have been going really well. I remember most of the old stuff and those things which I don't get immediately I can usually work out within a few minutes of investigation and I rarely have to refer to a second source to see how to do something.

HOWEVER. A glaring fault in my mathematics has become apparent: that I keep making stupid little mistakes.

For example: doing polynomial long division between 5x^2+24x-34 and x+6. I went all the way down the chain like so:

x+6/ 5x^2+24x-34
5x^2/x
quotient 1 = 5x
5x * (x+6)
5x^2+24x-34 - (5x^2 + 30x)
= -6x -34
-6x/x = -6
quotient 2 = -6

but then I fuck up.

I say that -6 * (x + 6) somehow equates to -6x + 6. I completely forgot that the other 6 was there or something. I don't know. It's so weird and I do this shit all the time. Am I just retarded? Like, I know how to do all these equations all the way up to the brief calculus class I took as an econ pre-req but I keep being dyslexic like never before. Is it because I'm really rusty? I haven't done serious math in about a year, since that brief calc class so it's possible. I don't know. Please help.

Also sorry for the massive wall of shit.

>>11006337
Are physicist GFs real?
I'm so alone.

Who is the best science-fu?

I vote maho, mainly because she's a cute loli with bushy eyebrows.

>>11004794
This makes me even more excited. I had the idea that it would be more about translating real world stuff into math. Right now I just need to qualify through a math placement quiz which I've taken before and I have a month to study for. I've already been in uni for a year so I have enough credits finished to pop in some extra classes I wanted to do. Probably general chemistry 1 because it has the same placement test as my pre-req math class. My university requires a cultural diversity credit so I'll probably stuff that in too. Then maybe an art class, linguistics, a 3rd language. Who knows.

>>11004848
Thank you very much. Despite my shame over the past I'm very hopeful for the future.
Also, I've started fantasizing about a qt lab-coat gf to snuggle with. Is this too bizarre and unrealistic a fantasy?

>>11004706
I read that as relativistic qts and now I'm sitting her yearning for a qt lab partner physicist gf to keep my lab coat warm.