I'd like to thank everyone for their help.

I begin my courses on the 12th. Because of the gaps in my knowledge my classes ended up being Analytical Trigonometry and Statistical Methods.

I appreciate everyone's help.

[QUOTE=jasong]I'd like to thank everyone for their help.

I begin my courses on the 12th. Because of the gaps in my knowledge my classes ended up being Analytical Trigonometry and Statistical Methods.

I appreciate everyone's help.[/QUOTE]
What is "Analytical Trigonometry"?

Chris

continuing math education questions.
 

[QUOTE=jasong]I'd like to thank everyone for their help.

I begin my courses on the 12th. Because of the gaps in my knowledge my classes ended up being Analytical Trigonometry and Statistical Methods.

I appreciate everyone's help.[/QUOTE]
:smile: Jasong I wish you all the very best in your studies. I hope you will be able to keep up with the rigour required these days in Mathematics. But keep at it and dont give up. If you fall make sure you get up.
Revise your study material you have learnt as often as possible.As in the
phrase, I follow religiously,the motto 'Repetitio est mater studiorum'---- 'Repetition is the mother of all studies'
Mally :coffee:

[QUOTE=Chris Card]What is "Analytical Trigonometry"?

Chris[/QUOTE]
apologies for answering my own question ...
from a google search it means "that branch of trigonometry which
treats of the relations and properties of the trigonometrical functions",
which makes sense I guess, although I've not heard it called that before - maybe it's an Americanism, or maybe a course called "trigonometrical functions" sounds too banal.

Chris

[quote=jasong]I've never attributed a lot of intelligence to the average Arkansan, apparently my opinion applies to web administrators in Arkansas to:

[URL="http://uca.edu"]http://uca.edu[/URL] gets the equivalent of a 404 error, you have to put "www." in front of it, which is totally retarded for a place trying to make money[/quote]
Try substituting "harvard" for "uca".

Same error until you prefix "harvard.edu" with "www.", too.

Does your opinion apply to the intelligence of web administrators in Massachusetts, too?

[QUOTE=cheesehead]Try substituting "harvard" for "uca".

Same error until you prefix "harvard.edu" with "www.", too.

Does your opinion apply to the intelligence of web administrators in Massachusetts, too?[/QUOTE]
Since it happened at a Harvard website, too, maybe I should question wisdom instead of intelligence.

Interesting observation. Did you actually go looking for this phenomenon?

[quote=jasong]Since it happened at a Harvard website, too, maybe I should question wisdom instead of intelligence.[/quote]I read somewhere that there can be a good reason for not answering to the "www." prefix on external queries, but I've forgotten where and the given reason, and don't know enough about domains or Web addressing to know whether that reason is valid.

[quote]Interesting observation. Did you actually go looking for this phenomenon?[/quote]Yes, because I grew up near Arkansas. :-) I verified my recollection that it didn't happen with "caltech" or "mit", then tried "yale", then "harvard". (It also happens with "utulsa", whose home page recently had a link to "Robotic mirror wins role in ballet" [URL="http://www.utulsa.edu/fyi/index.pl?group=3&bullet=3"]http://www.utulsa.edu/fyi/index.pl?group=3&bullet=3[/URL] but that may disappear soon.)

Here's the text:

A 330-pound fighting robot built by University of Tulsa students for a BattleBots competition was shed of its bullet-proof panels and steel spikes — so it could instead give a delicate ride to a full-length mirror in Tulsa Ballet’s December 2003 production of “The Nutcracker.” The remote-controlled robot traveled onto the stage and interacted with the dancers.

Cliff has these books that are pretty much paperback versions of the algerbra/trig/calc/geometry texts you would get from a college bookstore. They have only a few problems though. When my dad and me went to a college algebra class together, we had only one book but I had a Cliff (black and yellow) book and I swear it had the exact same chapters, in the exact same order. There's even 3 extra chapters between 4 and 5 of the $100 hardcover in the $10 book! We went through the homework in turns then asked each other questions if we had problems. Since his degree is not math related, it's no surprise that he was doing most of the asking.

If you follow chains of links on math wikis, then you'll be able to judge what areas you need the least help in. Wolfram's Math World is a little harder to read then Purple Math and Dr. Math but there's a huge overlap in information.

My local schools ystem just put these online:

[url]http://www.wcpss.net/success-series/[/url]

I have no idea how good they are. Maybe someone can peruse them and comment.

[QUOTE=Xyzzy]I have no idea how good they are. Maybe someone can peruse them and comment.[/QUOTE]
I can tell you, that it's math value is zero. I've downloaded one math lesson about factoring trinomials: ax^2+bx+c. The teacher tries to factoring with very less intelligence.