The game forces me to do math what the fuck. I'm here to game and not be a scientist. Can someone help me with this?
>game forces you to do gay puzzles without your consentAnd that's why we use ChatGPT.
come on sis this is pre-algebra shit
>>736505570anon you just multiply 6 by x to the power of 2, then subtract 17 multiplied by x, then add 12. this is literally third grade math. you are dumber than an elementary schooler.
>>736505570Are you genuinely retarded? There's at least three ways to solve it. >divide both sides by 6 and then FOIL>move all the Xs to one side>plug the numbers in and see if they work
>>736505827>you just multiply 6 by x to the power of 2, then subtract 17 multiplied by x, then add 12Sorry but that shit just sounds like schizobabble to me. And no way anyone in 3rd grade is doing that.
>>736505798>polynomials = pre-algebra"No!"
>it's another "anons look up the formula and pretend they always knew so they could feel smarter" episode
>>736505570haha welcome to 2026 retard
>>736505570Oh this is easy, just try an answer, and reload if you get it wrong.Math not required.
>>736505985>no way anyone in 3rd grade is doing that.In America
>>736505798I forgot the fucking quadratic formula fuck you I already locked all that knowledge away as a traumatic experience.
>>736505936>divide both sides by 6 and then FOILYou can't divide 17 with 6 tho...>move all the Xs to one sideWhat'd that do? So now I just have the 0 on the other side? That's stupid.>plug the numbers in and see if they workI want to earn it.>>736506070H-hello... welcome to you too fren.>>736506146Takes too much time!
>>736506154Never heard of a European Harvard or Yale. Curius.
>>736505570why do all the answers but the last one offer two different values for x
>>736506030i'm staring at it but i've completely forgotten how to factor this shit. I think if you're not using the quadratic formula, don't you either split the middle value into half its value squared; or if that doesn't work, you get two numbers that when multiplied and added, give you both the second and third value? but I can't remember at all what you do after that.
>>736505570Eh, just move the X-->You gotta use the +- formulaWell shit
>>736506276quadratic formula retard
i remember the quadratic formula is ax^2 + bx + c but i dont remember what you're supposed to actually do with that
>>736506305>furrynigger coomed so hard his brain got so smooth its essentially lobotomized.lmao, tale as old as time.
>>736505570Looks like it actually is idiot proof, that's surprising.
>>736506580you will also forget all the mathematics you learned after not using them for years
>>736506580>>736506580nut up or shut up. I could easily just look up the quadratic formula and plug in the numbers to solve it (unless it ends up as a negative and starts getting into imaginary numbers, but I don't think the game is going to pull your dick that hard)i'm just trying to remember how to do it without the quadratic CRUTCH
>>736506276The squared term introduces another possible solution to the equation :)
>save>pick answer>reload if wrongImaging being a smarttard and wasting time on m*th
>3 xs in the question>each solution only offers value for 2 xs
>>736506725oh yeah
>>736506421delta=bˆ2-4acif delta>0, the solutions are (-b+-sqrt(delta))/2aif delta<0 the solutions are complex, it's the same thing but there'll be an "i" in front of the sqrt.if delta=0 you'll only have one solution.then again I would probably just pick a random answer and quicksave+quickload until i get it right here. it'd be annoying since you're dealing with weird fractions here and I'd need to write something down to find the solutions.
Guys... you know you can just look up the answer right?
>>736506205>gachaposters are retardedCurious.
>>736506891I don't want to, I already did all my advanced calculus and physics courses I don't want to remember unless strictly necessary.
>>736505570it's pretty clearly the first one. answers 2 and 3 are identical; assuming that only one of the choices is correct, you can nix those two immediately. answer 4 implies that there's just one root, which is possible, but you can just insert x=1 and see by inspection that it's clearly false - thus it is the first one. no quadratic formula necessary
>>736506709Isn't the answer to these usually the odd one out thoughbeit?
6x^2 + 17x - 12 = 036x + 17x - 12 = 036x + 17x = -1253xx = -1253x = -12/xx = -12/53xx^2 = -12/53x = -12/2809
well i could look up the quadratic formula again, but it would be a lot faster to just quicksave and pick an answer, then load and try again until you get the right one. it's only 4 choices.
>>736507192based
>>736507192leonhard fucking euler over here. next you're gonna prove the riemann hypothesis
>>736507253
>>736507192>doesn't even change the sign of 12I kneel....
pathetic.
>>736507086I'm gonna find you and kill you, Albert Einstein. You are supposed to be dead, you are no better than normal people. YOU MUST DIE JUST LIKE ALL OTHER PEOPLE.
>>736507192
You should be able to solve this.
>>736507416>implying that people have 17^2 memorized
>>736507449I don't even know what the problem is.
>>736505570>6x^2 - 17x + 12 = 0 | x>0 | xx = 0, easy peasy
>>736507449These are just a bunch of music notes. What are you supposed to do with them?
>>736507449>musicslopNo thank you.
>>736507449Now this is cringe levels of slop puzzle. Do they really expect regular gamers to know cryptographic puzzles to break a code? At least when they did that shit in Pokémon Emerald with Braille they included the alphabet.
>>736506205>You can't divide 17 with 6 tho...Yes, you can. It's two and five-sixths.
>>736507514use a fucking calculator
>>736507514why would you need it memorized? do you not know how to do multiplication?
>>736507679Now its even more complicated!
>>736505570If you assume that there is only one answer, two of them are the same, and one of them boils down to 18 - 17.
>>736506421Thats a 2nd order polynomial, not the quadratic formula
>>73650751417^2 = (10+7)^2 = 10*10 + 2 * 7 * 10 + 7 * 7 = 100 + 140 + 49 = 289
>>736505570
>>736507603maybe somehow connects to a numbering system? 137121? Is that it?
You have never used the quadratic formula outside work. Never.
>>736507718if i had a calculator, i would just use the built-in polynomial solver>>736507723if i were going through the effort of employing pen and paper, i would just manually check the proposed roots>>736507818this is admittedly pretty wise. i think most people could do this in their head
>>736507603this is the full puzzle, the values are different because it's randomly generated per playthrough
>>736505570Why the fuck does it have two values for X? You're not solving for roots, are you?
>>736507192Black science man tier math.
>>736508015>17^2>pen and paperthis is trolling isnt it
I have a masters degree in physics and can't remember how to solve this. All those years of education truly were just a means to get a piece of paper that says I can have a job because everything I learned is long gone.
>>736507514You can do that in your head goblino. I'm sorry, you would be able to do that if you weren't brown.170+ 70 + 49 = 289.
>>736505570there's no valid reason to manually do math in 2026, maybe it was useful when you needed to calculate where a bomb would drop in WW1 and shit but we have computers to do that now
>>736508221and the stupid piece of paper doesn't even get you a job anymore
>>736508094>>736508246i don't think i could trust myself to do that multiplication and keep it in my head... like yes i could do 17 x 10 + 10 x 7 + 7 x 7 but i wouldn't trust myself to shoot 100% on it when i could just skip the whole process by doing something of this >>736507086 sort. in my defense all of the math classes i take now are in the calc-sphere so 99% of my calculations are symbolic anyhow
>>736505570pls someone tell me what i did wrong it's been yearsi'd still go with B because number match :)
>>736508020I don't get it. I know exactly what those intervals are and could recognize them in the notes listed on the left if needed (for example AbA is a minor second I believe) but I don't see how that would give you a solution. And I have no idea what you're supposed to use the octave keys for.
>>736505570just put that screen shot into grok retard kun
>>736508561...what the fuck am i even looking at here
>>736505570Who the fuck uses fractions these days?4/3, 3/2
>>736505570I'm literally an engineer and I forgot 99% of the math stuff I learned in school because I just don't use it.Likewise, we're not writing novel algorithms for anything, like ever, and if we need one there's a 99% chance someone already had a similar enough problem that they solved it decades ago.So what's the fucking point? In the event that I can't access computers then I can't do my job anyway. I never enjoyed the math aspect of my career either. Nothing of value was lost. Except precious years of my youth wasted on learning this shit I never needed after passing the exam.
>>736508794it looked like a trinomial so my instinct was to factor it. i did that by multiplying ac and then finding what two numbers you could use to both multiply into 72 and add to -17 (which is -8 and -9)I then had a quadranomial which I factored into a binomial by factoring out GFCs and then grouping what I had left
>>736508561you didn't do anything wrong. You just aren't "done" yet. Just divide the first factor by 2 and the second factor by 3 and multiply everything by 6 (since you divided everything by 6 beforehand), 6(x-3/2)(x-4/3), which means the solutions are 3/2 and 4/2.
>>736506421Honestly, hardest part of this was remembering what it was called to look it up for this pic
>>736509048*4/3, my bad
>>736509048>got it wrongFUUUUUUUUCK FUCK FUCKthank you for the clarification.
>>736508983actually this makes sense and i think you're right. i just got confused by the wacky brackets (should be more like [6x^2 - 8x] - [9x + 12]). also i have no idea what sort of relevance 6 x 12 = 72 has to this problem
>>736505570>this threadHas anyone ever visited /sci/?
>>736509254Why would we? Maths is not a science
>>736509318>maths
>>736509254Yes. It's a gay board.
>>736509459Ironically, using that meme outs you as a redditorAnd recognising such outs me as one too :)
>>736509608that's a twitter meme thoughbeit
without doing the math i can tell by looking at it that the answers are somewhere between one and two. there's only one viable option.
>>736505570You don't even need to solve it properly since it's a multiple choice question. Literally just test which one works. Hell. You don't even need to test since 2 of the options are the same and one has the same number twice.
this makes me realize as a 40 year old how much knowledge I've lost after decades of not doing anything with math skills I learned in high school / college at all. I don't remember how to solve anything like this and I feel very dumb
>>736505985>basic math>schizobabble /v/ never ceases to amaze
>>736510407I struggled with it fair bit too and I relearned this stuff like a year ago. it's just a fact of life that unless you have an eidetic memory (which 99.99% of people don't), you're going to lose what you don't use. the upside is that relearning it will be easier than learning it for the first time.
>>736509105ts was the easiest math shit in school, you didn't even have to remember anything just put in the numbers
>>736505570tell me that's a mod that replaces that dogshit hacking minigame with math
>>736510458if your math involves letters you can't call it "basic"
>>736510876Anon...pre-algebra has small shit like variables that's extremely basic
>>736510407its almost like the vast majority of schooling is completely fucking pointless and has absolutely no bearing or relevance for life outside of schooli firmly believe we could cut school down to 1/3rd of its current time and have a population that was just as capable (or incapable i might say since most people are fucking retards)all you really need are:readingwritingbasic arithmetic, MAYBE some VERY basic algebra, im talking like 5 + x = 12 type shitsome recent history, like only shit within the past 200 years at mosthow to drivehow to do taxeshow to get a jobhow to not use a credit card for anything everMAYBE a foreign language if you wanna be fancyJOB DONEit shouldnt take 12 fucking years
>>736510983if your "math" can't be done in one of these its not basic lil bro
>>736510876>american "education"fucking lol
>>736505570>he can't do quadratic equationsngmi
>>736511004>its almost like the vast majority of schooling is completely fucking pointless and has absolutely no bearing or relevance for life outside of schoolThe point of Algebra is to teach children about abstract and logical thought processes. There's a reason why the teacher tells you to "show your work", the process matters more than the answer.
it's easy enough to not be interesting, while also not easy enough to be solved instantly unless you do polynomials all day for your dayjobgenuinely a terrible puzzle, but>bethesda
>>736507192>6x^2 + 17x - 12 = 0>36x + 17x - 12 = 0>36x + 17x = -12
>>736511118it's an edited image for easy (You)s Anon
>>736511215i stand by everything i said
>>736505570why does x equal so many things? how tf are you suposed to do it
>>736511395it's ok anon already solved it for us: >>736507192
>>736505570Literally not a single real world use case for this shitWhat's the point
>>736509459what is wrong with counting. do germans count with their toes or something
>>736511004It definitely teaches a lot of shit nobody will ever use, but it also has the problem of classes being too short to actually teach the material. Math, for example, has teachers attempting to be as slow and careful as possible to get through the material accurately, and still eventually makes math classes optional because even getting to that point was hard.
>>736510407If you don't need it you don't need itWho cares
You should be able to solve this (for arbitrary f(x))
>>736510407I realized I lost it too, but by quickly ready through the thread with other anons' explanations it's easily coming back to methat shit is easy as long as you've internalized it once, I could find a few of those problems online and grind them for a little bit and be back at my high school level in no time
(3x - 4)(2x - 3)
>>736507192fucking incredible
Can /v/ solve this?
>>736511625>1D heat equation with homogeneous dirichlet boundary conditionshow about you go fuck yourself insteadman am I glad I don't have to do this kinda thing anymore
>>736511841>>736512000Holy shit ahahah
>>736512000just integrate by parts bro
>>736512164>black>without using sin
>>736512164Is this supposed to be something to be proud of?
>>736511097yeah but you cant fucking teach that and im tired of pretending that you caneither someone has the ability to think abstractly and form a logical thought process or they dont. its intrinsic. weve wasted literally decades trying to pretend that niggers and other browns can be 'taught' things that come naturally to every almost every single white and asian kid on the planet, IT DOES NOT WORK and it just wastes money
>>736506205nigger
>>736512360Nta, but i think you should teach functions before anything else. Functions are the heart of logic and math
>>736512164I don't know why, but everything about unit circles with trig functions fucked my brain up something fierce. I probably misunderstood something fundamentally about it from the start so that entire course was me holding on for dear life solving things through pure memorization and not understanding what the fuck I was meaningfully doing.
>>736507835A kid did that at my school. Never did see him again after the incident.
>>736508263This post was made by the Submarine Force. They don't want you to know about
>>736512594as I recall most of my math classes barely touched on the theory right at the beginning without giving you any context for how that relates to what you're going to be doing and then immediately nosedived into rote memorization
>>736505570the answer is quickload
>>736512739lets stop pretending like kids and teenagers would actually give a shit about 'usability'. everyone likes to tout some bullshit like 'oh well half the problem is that we cant ever see how it would relate to real life'nofull stopeven if math past arithmetic DID relate to real life in a significant way, and even if it were described in classes extensively, kids and teenagers still wouldnt give a shit. i certainly wouldn't have, if it had been done when i went through school. and the reason for that is because math is fucking boring and nobody outside of weirdos and broken autists likes it
>>736512594Trig is completely useless anyway, you only need Euler Identity
>>736512853I'm not talking about practical applications, being able to build a coherent mental model of what you're doing is extremely helpful in learning
>>736512949Physics helps a lot on that
>>736508020I know my share of music theory and do not understand what the puzzle is asking me to do. Why are there sixteen numbers listed for the keys? Is it just a double octave? I have to be missing an obvious connection.
>>736513091it's more a cryptography puzzle than really being about music theory. the interval keys are offsets for the octave keys or something
>>736513238what an evil puzzle
>>736512045just separate the variables :)
>>736505570this has to be a mod, i don't remember this and i doubt 90% of the playerbase could do this
>>736505570Last one is clearly wrong. Middle two are the same answer. By process of elimination top one has to be correct.
>>736513586how is the last one clearly wrong?
>>736506305I took college advanced calc over a decade ago, I never used that shit and a few months ago I was doing some programing thing and forgot how to even divide large whole numbers on paper
>>736513653It's very simple to plug in x = 1 into the equation. 6-17+12 = 1, a calculation absolutely trivial to do in your head.
>>736513692i passed linear algebra 7 years ago and i had to look up how to multiply fractions the other day
>>736514461>charge in amplol
>>736512334name one real world use
>I haff twelve matchsteek
>negative b plus or minus the square root of b minus four a c, all over 2 aI memorised this in high school on a whim, and then it became a kind of mantra that I repeat in my head when I'm not sure if I'm suffering from brain damage or losing my memoryIt's been about 18 years and I still do this
>>736507449Fuck this I'm shooting the jogging manchild. Lemuria can go fuck itself.
>>736514461I'll have a goFirst try I was doing some retard shit trying to work backwards from 1600, subtracting 128, then I reread the question>b1 + b2 + b3 = 1600>b1 + (b3 + 128) + b3 = 1600>2b3 + b3 + 128 + b3 = 1600>4b3 + 128 = 1600>4b3 = 1472>b3 = 1472 / 4 = 368>b2 = b3 + 128>b2 = 368 + 128>b2 = 496
>>736515521FUCK YOU
>>736515857yeah you got it right. I treated it as a system of equations question and tried substituting but fucked up
>>736508561>using the factors of the a and c coefficients to find the components of the b coefficientsDoes this actually work? I was testing by trial and error
>>736516170If A were 1, you can simplify this process as "what two numbers add together to make B, and times together to make C".A not being 1 means those "what two numbers" need to also multiply by any factors of A (could be 1 and 6, or 2 and 3) before adding/multiplying to make B and C.
>>7365092096 x 12 = 7272 = 8 x 98 + 9 = 17It's how he figured out the additive components of B.
>>736505570If we turn each part of the equation into a function we get>f(x) = 6x^2>f(x) = -17x>f(x) = 12Taking the derivative gives us>f'(x) = 12x>f'(x) = -17On a graph 12x intercepts -17 at 1.4167. This means that for all x values greater than 1.4167, (6x^2 -17x) becomes increasingly more positive while between 0 and 1.4167 the outcome is more negative. At x = 1 the outcome is -11 which isn't negative enough. So x has to be bigger than 1 but smaller than 1.4167.
>>736512594>Complete deadbeat at school>Start playing garrys mod>Get into wiremod and E2>Holograms are really cool>Make little things move around with holograms>Hmm I'm going to make a little person today>How do I shot legs???>Figure out that if you use the sin function in the X and cos in the Z (no fucking clue what either of these are at the time) and multiply the values by the length of the leg they end up in the right place, magically, and the rotation of the leg just needs to be sort of the same value as what you plug into the sin>That's really fucking cool>Want to give them knees>But where the hell does the knee go?????>Take the distance between the foot and the hip, get half.. Now just how far to offset it... >Start playing with all the trig functions until magically its in just the right place>Now just use the previous black magic to make the upper leg point at the knee, and the lower leg point from the knee to the foot>Kinematic equations acquired!!!>Do same thing for the arms>Wait why the fuck does everything fuck up when I look straight up and straight down...>Behold the great satan and know his name; Gimbal Lock.>What the fuck>Someone suggests I try using quaternions>No idea what these are but I just treat them like a small angle and multiply them by a big number and they pass the axis without exploding>It just worksI don't remember how to greentext its been too long but TL;DR the way they teach maths is shit for kids. Chuck a classroom in garrysmod and they'd teach themselves and eachother in three months a decade's worth of maths curriculum. Especially if they had a teacher to just walk over and point out what they're doing is actually XYZ maths thing and explain how it works and why it works.
>>736518163congrats, you figured out what we all know and yet dont want to admitschool is retarded and only served a limited purpose back when we didnt have computersshoutout to all math teachers who kept telling you "you wont always have a calculator in your pocket"nope, I have fkn photo math, typing is not even necessary at this pointalso a big >dittoon learning via games, was quiet funny when I realized in IT high school, that I learned logic gates via Minecraft years ago>picrel is still in some drawer herehttps://redstone.fandom.com/wiki/T_Flip-Flopmost school classes are retarded.instead of learning to drive, cook, do your taxes and whatnot.you learn how nazis are bad and that you can calculate tons of circle related things with pi.beyond rule of three and some other elementary shit, you wont ever need anything else again.
I didn't pay attention in math classI can't even do basic addition without counting with my fingers
>>736519298that other link doesnt even have the sticky piston one that I made back thenhttps://redstone.fandom.com/wiki/Basic_Circuitry
>>736517215Why do people confidently post something factually wrong like this?Like, ignoring the entire math here, just the final statement>So x has to be bigger than 1 but smaller than 1.4167Literally could not be true as it does not match even one of the answers provided. It does match 4/3 but not the accompanying 3/2, and all others it does not.So why post it when it literally could not be right?
>>736506030did no one teach you retarded niggers BEDMAS? its literally designed to be simple and easy to remember lol
>>736511496It shows where a parabola intersects the line.>>736511395There are two Xs because the parabola intersects the line in two places, like a ball going up and falling back down in a regular arc, landing somewhere other than where it got thrown from.
>>736505570Yeah honestly I've completely forgotten how to do math. Kinda sad this is how I found out.
>>736506205>Takes too much timeIt would've taken less than posting and monitoring this shit thread
