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Never met a physicist? Or even someone from engineering department? Plenty of college students are doing multiple pages of derivations for their coursework.
by drivebyhooting 2y ago
Never met a physicist? Or even someone from engineering department?
Plenty of college students are doing multiple pages of derivations for their coursework.
- llm_trw 2y agoAnd yet, give them something as innocuous as $$ \frac{\frac{a}{b}}{c \times \frac{d}{\frac{e}{f}}} \times \frac{\frac{g}{h \times \frac{i}{j}}}{k} $$ And watch 98% of them fail to bring it to normal for a simple fraction.
- Jensson 2y agoMuch less than 98% would fail that, why do you think that? Do you really believe that almost all STEM college students are that dumb? Likely you misunderstood something here, not the people you talked to. Do you mean they get confused with that notation? Not understanding specific notation doesn't mean you can't do the thing.
- llm_trw 2y agoThis was a question I gave as a post grad TA to third year physics students. In three classes totaling 43 students exactly one got it right and he was a double major from CS. This is Latex, it renders nicely to: https://arachnoid.com/latex/?equ=%24%20%5Cfrac%7B%5Cfrac%7Ba%7D%7Bb%7D%7D%7Bc%20%5Ctimes%20%5Cfrac%7Bd%7D%7B%5Cfrac%7Be%7D%7Bf%7D%7D%7D%20%5Ctimes%20%5Cfrac%7B%5Cfrac%7Bg%7D%7Bh%20%5Ctimes%20%5Cfrac%7Bi%7D%7Bj%7D%7D%7D%7Bk%7D%20%24 https://arachnoid.com/latex/?equ=%24%20%5Cfrac%7B%5Cfrac%7Ba... Which is the question I posted all those many years ago.