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And I am taking the gist of your "deliberately misleading" criteria and applying to another case: By your logic, it seems to me, this... -
Ironically, it can also suggest that the problem poser wasn't clever enough to come up with a problem that is interesting by itself, and...
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You're kidding, right? Here's from post #26, as to why the figure in the problem is deliberately misleading. See @pbuk's opinion on...
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I am also a retired college math teacher (over 40 years teaching). So I am on the side of Mark44 in this matter. I do not disagree...
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You are second-guessing the intent of the poser. Why look for malice when there is a perfectly valid educational basis for the set up of...
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I stand by malicious.
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Malicious is an unusual choice of words. It's deliberate, but it's for a purpose.
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How exactly is the problem "deliberately misleading"? Are you asserting that - that in a given geometric diagram, two lines that look...
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Yes, I would not object so strenuously. How about sadism? I agree that it probably was not accidental, but posing a problem that is...
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weirdoguy reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Rare case of pneumonic plague in US - Arizona with Like.
Absolutely not, and it's probably also (thank to any higher powers that may be) very unlikely. But in this day and age with the vaccine...
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weirdoguy replied to the thread I Problem in understanding instantaneous velocity.Yes, and I would say you would do yourself a huge favour if you'd learn what limit is, mathematically. I know that the definition is...
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weirdoguy reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread B The work done by two objects on each other with Like.
No relative motion in the direction of the force. You want the dot product of the relative motion and the force to be zero. The...
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weirdoguy reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread B The work done by two objects on each other with Like.
As @A.T. suggests, the way to combat confusion is with clarity. Not vague handwaving. More handwaving. Show me a scalar and I'll show...
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weirdoguy replied to the thread B Flatlander analogy of spherical surface as observable universe.But we already understand the "expansion into what?" issue, i.e. there is no issue. Expansion by the very definition means that distance...
