/sci/ - Science & Math

I drink black coffee because I like the fucking complex and rich taste. When I'm not drinking coffee I crunch coffee beans and let them sit in my cheeks so the flavor and aroma are with me all day like a chipmunk shaman. When I go take a shit after I'm done fingering my asshole with a wet wipe because tiny invisible shit particles in boxers is fucking disgusting you pig I shove a couple beans up there to improve colon health and leave a nice aroma in case a girl happens to toss my salad before I shower again.

You are literally the worst type of ingrate degenerate utter scum and I hope you fucking die. I hope all your friends die too in an earthquake and they all die a day before your funeral so there's nobody there other than the priest who decides fuck it and he jacks a five roper right off on your casket. I hope after you're in the ground some schmuck of a kid whose parents never tell him no comes by and writes "Here Lies A Giant Fucking Faggot/ He Took Sugar And Cream In His Coffee Just Like A Whore Takes Cream And Anal Beads In Her Asshole\ He Wouldn't Know Flavor If It Punched Out All His Teeth And Face Fucked Him." Fuck you.

>>5577672
I'm inclined to choose life because it feels nice but would be all right with death.

/sci/, quick check:

If I roll 6 six-sided die and I need to calculate the odds that exactly one die is a 1, is the answer 5^5 / 6^6?

My thinking is that the total number of combinations is 6^6. From there I set one die equal to 1, so I'm really only rolling five die, 6^5. Then I need to remove all results that have a 1, hence 5^5 and thus 5^5/6^6.

>There must be a 0 to the 1

Natural Numbers called, they say sup.

>>4876882
No it isn't, you just read way too much popsci

alright fuck it /sci/, I need to swallow my pride and admit that I need help. I'm trying to teach myself some of the higher maths because it bugs me that I use a lot of things in (undergrad) physics that I don't really understand, so this summer I'm doing a math 300 (set theory & proofs) course.

I'm stuck on a homework problem though:

Let a be an integer. Then a^3 is a (mod 3).

I can prove it directly or by the contrapositive or contradiction, I can't use proof by induction because we "haven't learned it yet."

Any help? I feel like the answer shouldn't be this hard to get but I keep getting stymied. Thanks

I'm working on improving my reading speed, so I'm in search of some interesting material.

Does anybody have any good reading (preferably something I can copy and paste online, I'm using spreedr) suggestions? Preferably things at an intro level of whatever field they are in, as I feel that struggling with comprehension of ideas while I'm trying to simply focus on my reading will be counter-productive

/sci/ I've got myself in a jam. I've put off taking most of my required math and science courses for a couple years, and I need to start them now. I did calc 1 first year and kind of struggled with it, but thats because I almost never went to class, and when I did I didn't pay much attention.

Any tips for maximizing my success in math and science (specifically physics and chem) courses? Beyond actually getting my ass to class and paying attention + taking notes, obviously.

How important would you say it is to do assigned homework problems regularly?

Thanks