X4-3xy+2x/(y-3)*|x-2y| = ?
As little as three weeks ago I was on the fourth floor of the Pentagon reviewing Defense Planning Scenarios for the Wargaming, Simulation and Analysis Division of the Joint Staff while prepping senior Air Force leaders for the upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review.
Today, I rationalized a denominator with a radical in it by multiplying the conjugate.
You know what? I miss the Pentagon. A month ago I could care less about finding the roots of a polynomial. I didn't like High School. I don't need flashbacks to 9th grade. The worst of it is that even though the Math Review course is supposed to be a refresher, they "highly encouraged" us to plonk down $115 for a textbook, though they couldn't "require" us to buy it. For a class that doesn't count that will be done in three weeks. Instead, I thought I'd pay my rent and did some algebra problems I found on the internet, since I don't think the problems have changed all that much since 2002. Or 856. Or 3459 B.C.
The other "refresher" courses are in English (next week we discuss grammar!) and Microsoft programs. The other day we learned how to change plain text to italics in Microsoft Word 2003.
But we're also getting some Air Force history and technology lectures, which are pretty cool. Today we learned about the background of Wright-Patterson AFB, why it's here, who it was named after (Wilbur Wright of the Wright Brothers, who died of Typhoid in 1912 and Frank Patterson, the pilot son of the local magnate who invented the cash register, who died in training here), and other cool details. Like how AFIT's first graduating class (actually, the precursor of what was to be called AFIT after the AF was established) in the 1920s included the father of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second Earth man on the moon.
Stay tuned to this screen for further trivial matters of import.
First professional football game? Played in Dayton.
There's a small white diner across the street called "YUMMY BURGER". It also serves Thai food.
Today, I rationalized a denominator with a radical in it by multiplying the conjugate.
You know what? I miss the Pentagon. A month ago I could care less about finding the roots of a polynomial. I didn't like High School. I don't need flashbacks to 9th grade. The worst of it is that even though the Math Review course is supposed to be a refresher, they "highly encouraged" us to plonk down $115 for a textbook, though they couldn't "require" us to buy it. For a class that doesn't count that will be done in three weeks. Instead, I thought I'd pay my rent and did some algebra problems I found on the internet, since I don't think the problems have changed all that much since 2002. Or 856. Or 3459 B.C.
The other "refresher" courses are in English (next week we discuss grammar!) and Microsoft programs. The other day we learned how to change plain text to italics in Microsoft Word 2003.
But we're also getting some Air Force history and technology lectures, which are pretty cool. Today we learned about the background of Wright-Patterson AFB, why it's here, who it was named after (Wilbur Wright of the Wright Brothers, who died of Typhoid in 1912 and Frank Patterson, the pilot son of the local magnate who invented the cash register, who died in training here), and other cool details. Like how AFIT's first graduating class (actually, the precursor of what was to be called AFIT after the AF was established) in the 1920s included the father of astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second Earth man on the moon.
Stay tuned to this screen for further trivial matters of import.
First professional football game? Played in Dayton.
There's a small white diner across the street called "YUMMY BURGER". It also serves Thai food.
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