>Be me >taking math test >supposed to find derivative >end up with zero >next question asks to find tangent line >get confused because I couldn't understand how a line could have a slope of zero >mfw I find out after the test horizontal lines are a thing Am I retarded /sci/?

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Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:51:21 2019 No.11046206 [Reply] [Original]

>Be me
>taking math test
>supposed to find derivative
>end up with zero
>next question asks to find tangent line
>get confused because I couldn't understand how a line could have a slope of zero
>mfw I find out after the test horizontal lines are a thing
Am I retarded /sci/?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:53:52 2019 No.11046218 >>11046206 slope is both a useful and completely retarded way to think about lines. thinking about them as being the contours of some planar function is where it's at

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 23:00:10 2019 No.11046242 >>11046206 they fail to communicate the geometric correlates of many of the concepts in calculus so no, though you need to spend more time graphing functions and their derivatives I think.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 23:02:11 2019 No.11046247 >>11046206 What the fuck is a horizontal line even? No change?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 23:05:10 2019 No.11046253 >>11046247 Yes. It means no matter what x you plug in, you get the same y.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 02:24:01 2019 No.11046563 >>11046218 >being a planelet I think of everything in terms of paths in an n-dimensional field. Have fun in flatland, peasant.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 02:25:48 2019 No.11046567 >>11046247 A local/global min/max

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