Limits. And it's funny, because I understood them perfectly well in Precalc. But now we're using epsilon and delta and that creepy upside-down A for no reason, and just lskjldk I DON'T GET IT WAAAH~
Ohhhhh yeah, limits in that notation is pretty scary at first. It's all just a different way of saying that limits approximate a number by getting infinitely close to it. So, as you get infinitely close to something on a coordinate plane, your distance from that something decreases infinitely, in terms of x AND y, right? That's really all that the epsilon/delta stuff is saying. As you approach a point, the value of the limit gets closer and closer to the value of the function.
Ah, sorry for the calculus rambling. ^^;; Man, now I miss calc. XD But yeah. It'll be helpful to know this, because you'll learn to be able to do proofs with that definition. Maybe.
And, for the record, I usually said I hated calc while taking the class. XD I just realized it's kind of fun once you get it.
Right now, I have a newish account called TroublingaStar, but my old one is called grand_jete, previously starlit_iridescence, previously RoseZephyr, etc.
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winterfish
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:13 am (UTC)Limits. And it's funny, because I understood them perfectly well in Precalc. But now we're using epsilon and delta and that creepy upside-down A for no reason, and just lskjldk I DON'T GET IT WAAAH~
Yeah...what's your ff name?
Re: too lazy to log out of RP journal
Date: 2008-09-17 03:21 am (UTC)Ah, sorry for the calculus rambling. ^^;; Man, now I miss calc. XD But yeah. It'll be helpful to know this, because you'll learn to be able to do proofs with that definition. Maybe.
And, for the record, I usually said I hated calc while taking the class. XD I just realized it's kind of fun once you get it.
Right now, I have a newish account called TroublingaStar, but my old one is called grand_jete, previously starlit_iridescence, previously RoseZephyr, etc.