My old teacher used the line "You don't know your asymptote from a hole on the graph."
It tickled a bunch of immature high schoolers.
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Thats hilarious
The teacher who taught pre-calc got worse and worse at teaching, but never reach the line to get them fired.
I had As in math before I got that dipshit. He failed like half the class, everyone else got Cs and Ds.
I don't like them apples.
They’re extreme at the limits.
Almost everything, but not quite.
sth function approaches a straight line, why do you ask?
sorry, but my memory doesn't reach that far
I wonder if a reacharound can be plotted. Also how would it look graphically
I can identify them in a police line-up of geometry stuff.
I was expecting answers but got jokes, not disappointed, just enjoying the jokes.
As for asymptotes, many mathematical functions have a value they are going towards but never quite reach. One example would be to start with 1 and then halve it, then halve it, then halve it, and keep going forever. It will trend towards 0 but never ever reach it.
Another example of approaching 0 is y = 1/x which is a cool graph. There is a curve which starts just to the right of the Y axis at maximum Y value and comes almost straight down, curves out to 1,1 then shoots out along towards the X axis almost but never reaching it. The cool thing is it does the exact same in the lower left quadrant with the line coming from the negative X axis, passing -1,-1, the shooting down the Y axis.
You can keep asking, but over time you’ll learn less and less and never get the whole answer.
Introduced through trig functions, then calculus limits, then logarithms and exponentiation.
I could go on for a while, but probably would never quite get to the point.
Out with it, already
well when a mommy asymptote and a daddy asymptote meet on opposite ends of an infinite grid, they give birth to a finite area that is carefully and lovingly defined, until the mommy asymptote runs away with a thick veiny fat curve that rules her world, and the daddy asymptote just stands there night-after-night watching them bisect each other
My knowledge on them has its limits
What is there to know? They're when a line gets to infinity in a specific coordinate axis, right?
It’s what happens when a very naughty function tries to divide by zero.
Nearly everything
Almost all there is tuh know
Increasingly little.
as the years go on