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[annathyst]

I'll continue a string of math-related posts (viz. neuromantic and borokoro) among my friends and talk about my latest discovery.

I was reading a FoxTrot collection as a prelude to sleep, and I came to the strip where Paige dreams that she's faced with a complicated math exam.

One of the problems was a triple integral in spherical coordinates.

I checked it; Bill Amend did the change-of-variables from cartesian to spherical coordinates correctly; the fudge factor (Jacobian of the transform) was correct.


I'm not sure what's worse: a) that it was correct; b) that I bothered to check it; or c) I'm up at 5:15 AM telling people on IRC and posting to LJ about both of the above.


I should try to sleep soon, have to go have people stick needles into me and suck blood out for nefarious laboratory purposes in about five hours.

Comments

[billemon.livejournal.com]

Sheeesh. Phlebotomists .. leeches, the lot of 'em.

Actually I can relate ... I have always checked up on math and stuff in stories (well, barring Ringworld and the one about the neutron star, as I so totally didn't have to background ...).

Now, posting it to LJ might be obsessive LOL ;)

not surprising

[thedexter.livejournal.com]

he was some sort of science major in college. math or physics, IIRC. anyway, the worst part of it is that it was correct; he should've just put in psuedomath so that losers like us wouldn't be tempted to check it.