i think it should only be used as a torture method in order to extract secrets from the enemy prisoners!!
2006-06-08 09:47:55 · 26 answers · asked by yankeegurl 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
im not talking about adding, multiplication, or even fractions! im talking about calculus (derivatives), geometry... blah!
2006-06-08 09:53:19 · update #1
how can you use calculus for engineering and stuff?!?
2006-06-08 09:58:11 · update #2
all you people keep saying that the world is based on math blah blah blah, but HOW????
2006-06-08 10:09:50 · update #3
thanks primenumber!! i didn't get half the things you said, but i get that there's a logical explanation for math's importance... thanx!
2006-06-08 10:42:35 · update #4
you guys are all such math geeks!!! lol...
2006-06-10 07:14:04 · update #5
Math is used all the time in the engineering sciences. Many physical phenomena, including fluid flow, heat transport, and diffusion can be described by appropriate partial differential equations. In order to solve these equations and make predictions, you need to be good at calculus.
If you limit yourself to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, you would be stuck with linear models for everything. This means that any more complicated relationship between two variables could not be modeled continuously, and you would never be able to extrapolate with any confidence. Thus development of new technology would be strictly trial and error (and you wouldn't even have a good trial and error system without statistics).
Hang in there! Get through that math. You don't have to like it, but you will inevitably appreciate the developments that math has enabled.
2006-06-08 10:38:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If math were outlawed, there would be a lot of things that you need everyday that wouldn't work. Engineers use math and calculus all of the time to make sure that their designs will work properly. A lot of these designs are in your car, cell phone, washer and dryer, computer, roads, etc.
2006-06-08 09:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is all I have to say against math being illegal
Psychology is all biology, biology is all chemistry, chemistry is all physics and physics is all math.
Bottom line, everything is based upon math and math is the universal language.
All th fun you have in life watching T.V, driving expensive cars, rollercoasters and other stuff exist because of math.
2006-06-08 10:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by Munir B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wait: do we really want to make our enemies smarter than our high school graduates? I don't think so. However, doesn't it make more sense to have prisoners do math than have them lift weights? I'd rather be mugged by someone who knew some differential calculus than by someone who spent the last five years doing 200lb bicep curls.
2006-06-08 11:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because for instance people would have to guess all of the time. So say someone guessed at measurements on a bridge, and you needed the bridge to go clothes shopping, and you crashed into the river cause they just "eyeballed" it. No new clothes, and possibly dead you.
But they could make it illegal for people who do not plan to use it.
2006-06-08 13:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by Seerin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hell it should...without math and i mean the real stuff, calculus, geometry, complex number, logic and so, ther would be no radio, TV, cellphones, computers internet, or Yahoo!Answers. So if math is illegal, so is this!!!
2006-06-08 09:58:58 · answer #6 · answered by hackmaster_sk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Outside of the basics, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, math is useless. If I want to improve my thinking, I would do crossword puzzles, Suduka logic puzzles, mumbo jumbo puzzles, etc. Not math.
2006-06-08 09:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-09 02:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by swissnick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it is SUPER handy... Some of it I still haven't used, but I'm 20 and have been out of school for 3 years... I've used quite a bit of it in those three years, but some of it can go to h e l l :)
2006-06-08 09:51:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-08 07:45:26 · answer #10 · answered by roser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋