<p>It is taking so much effort not to make a joke about that being undefined and what are the limits. Stop tempting me.</p>
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<p>these people exist in real life?</p>
<p>^^<em>tempt</em></p>
<p>I argue about this in calc every day. Try me. ;)</p>
<p>Haha sometimes I wish Harvard would randomly email, mail or call me and tell me I miraculously got in then all this would be over with.</p>
<p>L’Hopital’s Rule FTW!!! There’s probably a ^ in his name somewhere…a “hat,” in stats parlance…</p>
<p><em>attempts to make calc and stat joke at same time</em>
<em>fails miserably</em></p>
<p>So when you say infinity (can’t find the symbol)/0, what do you mean. Is that not generally classified as undefined? So I need you to clarify what exactly you mean by infinity/0 before we can have a discussion.</p>
<p>^Yes, it’s an undefined. On any grading scale, it brings your GPA up to a 5.0. In algebra, it flummoxes students. In calculus, you need the original functions to do anything with it.</p>
<p>Yes, I mean* infinity *infinity. As in the undefined value, a quantity without bound or end.</p>
<p>@leafblade1354: The “hat” symbol you were referring to is on the “o”: L’H</p>
<p>As I am only a lowly AP Calc AB student, I know all of this but can never be certain of my statements’ validity. But can’t that undefined be transformed into something if ksarmand provided us with the original functions?</p>
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<p>Now THAT made me laugh :)</p>
<p>And may all folk beware of the discerning Internet critic, for he may laugh at you.</p>
<p>@ that calc/stat discussion going on off-topic: yes, taking the quotient of the derivatives of the original functions would yield the limit of the original quotient–L’Hopital’s rule. (Sorry, can’t make the hat without long and complicated Word maneuvering. Thanks for telling me where it was though–I thought it was the a. Although the o makes more sense.) However, as ksarmand was using his infinity/0 to make some kind of witty remark, I doubt that there even exists an original function; hence, we must approach it with a philosophical and not a mathematical manner of thinking.</p>
<p>^Yes, you’ve got it! I would never even dare to approach that from a purely mathematical standpoint; I’m such a weak math student it would be online respectability suicide.</p>
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<p>Yeah, you’re never going to get those from me. I’m the unlit bulb in my math classroom. My tungsten evaporated. :(</p>
<p>Oh, thank goodness, ksarmand. I am a weak math student as well (at least compared to my best friends who are both going to MIT) so I was treading carefully not to screw anything up. And I probably knew that rule at some point, but senioritis has caught on, and man is it epidemic at my school.</p>
<p>My best friend is going to MIT as well. She’s so good at math, it verges on terrifying. (and I forgot the majority of the calculus rules too :))</p>
<p>But why worry about treading carefully? You’re online! Throw caution to the wind! Carpe diem!</p>
<p>Still don’t want to sound like an idiot even if no one knows who I am. Plus, online respectability counts for something, doesn’t it? Point being, I am enjoying myself, and senior year is almost over, let us bask is the meaninglessness of calculus rules in our lives (at least hopefully).</p>
<p>Calc…I’ve forgotten 95% of BC and 20% of AB. Good times, this senioritis :)</p>
<p>@gunther6456: Pah. Make an alternate account if you’re worried about maintaining credibility. :)</p>
<p>@leafblade1354: I had an early onset of senioritis freshman year. It’s a debilitating disease that hobbled my entire high school career.</p>
<p>^ senioritis sucks… its a debilitating disease…</p>
<p>From now, I shan’t even try to maintain credibility. I shall be as whimsical and inexact as I wish without fear of consequences.</p>
<p>^ I’m staring at some AP Calculus Review homework as we type. It’s totally not getting done by tomorrow. Not that I care. :)</p>