+C
Thought about making shirts with that printed on the front during first year calculus.
Garfield
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01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 5 months ago
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
I don’t get it. What is the progression in this supposed to be?
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 5 months ago
My interpretation is that Jon starts talking about how division by 0 is not possible. Garfield then goes on about how we can use limits to assign values to such expressions, which we can use to calculate derivatives. I guess Garfield starts to question whether dy/dx really exists after all this.
Jon then changes the subject to be about integrals, which Garfield is immediately annoyed about the missing +C.
It’s super funny.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Is the +C “new”? I have a B.Sc majoring in mathematics. Now I graduated over 30 years ago and I never used much that I leaned in my degree during my career - so I couldn’t differentiate or integrate to save my life today. But, the equations at least look familiar. The +C does not.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Haha thanks for the explanation :) Actually figuring out that Jon cannot hear Garfields thoughts and that Garfield is always a step ahead of him made it much easier to understand
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You can divide by zero if you like, you just need to snap your fingers and wish really hard and a brand new number called Infinity appears.
It’s like magic!
Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Garfield’s injection of +c reminds me of when I was a wee little shit and, annoyed at losing points on a test for forgetting to write “+ c”, decided to exclusively write “- c” for the rest of school. Dropped the habit in college because I stopped caring, but I am always tempted.