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seanieg89

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I've always thought lower case delta was used for smaller changes and upper case delta for larger changes lol.
Meh, so many people use different notation...but in most calculus books I've seen upper case delta is the standard when looking at difference quotients.

Lower case delta is used more in analysis-type arguments and at a higher level, in calculus of variations.
 

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That said, most high school teachers wouldn't really know the difference, so its not a particularly important point.
 

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Bro its a question in fitzy
I did the division, i get 5 and so does the book :p
you get 1-6 at the end which = 5 :p
Wolframalpha tells me otherwise..

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Either me, wolframalpha and barbenator are wrong, the Fitzpatrick book is wrong, or you typed the question wrong.
 

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x-3 - 5 / x-2 THAT IS THE CORRECT ANSWER
It is.

In the quote that nightweaver has of you there is a 2 in the numerator, but you must have edited it just after he quoted and changed it to a 1.

I advise you to settle down though.
 

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It is.

In the quote that nightweaver has of you there is a 2 in the numerator, but you must have edited it just after he quoted and changed it to a 1.

I advise you to settle down though.
:S Did not realise the edit.. Should have double checked.
 

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this is 4u question? isn't this somethin we learn in 2u as well? O_O . Is this the level of integration i'd expect if i continue to do 4u ??
 

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this is 4u question? isn't this somethin we learn in 2u as well? O_O . Is this the level of integration i'd expect if i continue to do 4u ??
No it's not a 4U question lol.

4U you could get something like..

 

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I must have remembered the question wrongly.. Or i can't think of the method..
Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. I've seen questions very similar to that and I thought those methods would work but if what wolfram has is the simplest answer, we must have misremembered it.
 

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how do youse get time time to do all these questions? LOL
Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. I've seen questions very similar to that and I thought those methods would work but if what wolfram has is the simplest answer, we must have misremembered it.
 

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You can actually doing it using elementary methods. Just use the substitution u=x^2 then decompose the fraction.
 

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