2009-09-23, 09:15 PM
In elementary school/kindergarten, I was told you couldn't do 2-5, because you can't take 5 apples if you only have 2. Then they taught us negative numbers.
Next came roots. Can't take a square root of -100, they say, because no number can multiply by itself to make a negative. Then they taught us about i.
Can't divide by 0, they tell us. Now calc is covering limits and cheating the rule with derivatives and such.
I've been told you can't arcsin 2, because sin can only go from -1 to 1, and I want to know if there's any more rule-breaking high level math that deals with this... Is there?
Does some higher leveled math course for collage math nerds let you input a value into sin, and get 2? I've lost a certain degree of trust in the education system when they tell you "it can't be done".
Next came roots. Can't take a square root of -100, they say, because no number can multiply by itself to make a negative. Then they taught us about i.
Can't divide by 0, they tell us. Now calc is covering limits and cheating the rule with derivatives and such.
I've been told you can't arcsin 2, because sin can only go from -1 to 1, and I want to know if there's any more rule-breaking high level math that deals with this... Is there?
Does some higher leveled math course for collage math nerds let you input a value into sin, and get 2? I've lost a certain degree of trust in the education system when they tell you "it can't be done".