Goodspeed wrote:A quick google search confirms that this is the case for even smaller values than that, but we are talking about a limit here and Jerom is right in saying that there are values extremely close to 90 degrees where the pencil takes longer than a minute to fall. If there weren't, I think we would have bigger issues than the limit not being zero.ovi12 wrote:Also, I believe I saw somewhere that even if the top of the pencil is 1 atom diameter off of pi/2, the pencil will only take 3 seconds to fall. If you actually figure out the formula and show that as you get arbitrarily close to pi/2 then the time for the pencil to fall approaches infinity, then yeah it would debunk my example. But I'm not sure if this is the case. It's possible that as theta approaches pi/2, the time just approaches 5s for example.
I guess your physics guy mentioned this example because it's known to be counter intuitive how quickly the pencil falls even when almost upright, but it doesn't quite hold up.
AnywayThis seems blatantly obvious. It's always 1, except of course for x = 0.Im saying the limit of x->0 for x/x is defined precisely as 1
@JeromYou should probably drop your hate of mathematics if you want to be a physicist worth a damn. To me it seems obvious that a thorough understanding of mathematical concepts is one of the most important skills to have as a physicist.Jerom wrote:notification
On topic, I actually like the fort shipment in most of my decks. It's situational, but not half as situational as the eco upgrades (royal mint, refrigeration) which should probably not be in anyone's 1v1 deck at all.
I hate maths in that they always bitfuck over things like this. But I believe that we reach a very terrible situation if x/x is not defined for x=0.