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cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 23 days ago

What do you know about asymptotes?

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What do you know about asymptotes?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 23 days ago
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  • proti@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    sorry, but my memory doesn’t reach that far

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      I wonder if a reacharound can be plotted. Also how would it look graphically

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    I could go on for a while, but probably would never quite get to the point.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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      Out with it, already

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    What is there to know? They’re when a line gets to infinity in a specific coordinate axis, right?

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Introduced through trig functions, then calculus limits, then logarithms and exponentiation.

  • shaggyb@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Almost everything, but not quite.

  • kcweller@feddit.nl
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    23 days ago

    Nearly everything

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      Almost all there is tuh know

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    My knowledge on them has its limits

  • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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    23 days ago

    You can keep asking, but over time you’ll learn less and less and never get the whole answer.

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    I was expecting answers but got jokes, not disappointed, just enjoying the jokes.

    As for asymptotes, many mathematical functions have a value they are going towards but never quite reach. One example would be to start with 1 and then halve it, then halve it, then halve it, and keep going forever. It will trend towards 0 but never ever reach it.

    Another example of approaching 0 is y = 1/x which is a cool graph. There is a curve which starts just to the right of the Y axis at maximum Y value and comes almost straight down, curves out to 1,1 then shoots out along towards the X axis almost but never reaching it. The cool thing is it does the exact same in the lower left quadrant with the line coming from the negative X axis, passing -1,-1, the shooting down the Y axis.

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    23 days ago

    It’s what happens when a very naughty function tries to divide by zero.

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    22 days ago

    They’re extreme at the limits.

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    The teacher who taught pre-calc got worse and worse at teaching, but never reach the line to get them fired.

    I had As in math before I got that dipshit. He failed like half the class, everyone else got Cs and Ds.

    I don’t like them apples.

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    I can identify them in a police line-up of geometry stuff.

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    Increasingly little.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      as the years go on

  • randomwords@futurology.today
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    My old teacher used the line “You don’t know your asymptote from a hole on the graph.”

    It tickled a bunch of immature high schoolers.

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      Thats hilarious

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