Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!

[Eli]

(ax)' IS NOT EQUAL to x!!!

/me lost 16 points on an exam because of this trivial mistake.

/me bangs head against the wall.

/me says bye-bye to 90+ maths grade.

[BeBMan]

That rare outbreak of self criticism should be sticky

Oh, and don´t worry

[Ari Rahikkala]

I claimed that Eva Biaudet had been the chairman of Finland's parliament in a Swedish test. Take that blunder .

[Ecthy]

That's the stupidest mistake I have ever seen.

There is only one way you can get your honou rback in that country - go to army.

[Dauphin]

(ax)' IS NOT EQUAL to x!!!

Unless.... a = 0.5 x

[Ecthy]

we consider a a constant, not a linear function

[Stefu]

(ax)' IS NOT EQUAL to x!!!

(although I had to actually think for a bit before I realized what was wrong.)

My stupidest mistake was probably screwing a test question because I had counted 2*3=8 and based my calculations on that. (Happened in high school.)

[Ecthy]

*!=^

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

This is all going right over my head. Maths was never my strong point.

[Stefu]

Yes, Ecthelion, that's correct. Ten points and a parrot mark.

[Boris Godunov]

2+2=5 for very high values of 2...

Being a lib arts major, I can't recall ever having a blatantly stupid (er, sorry Eli) mistake of this sort that screwed me over. My best friend in highschool, however, got serious points taken off a paper he did on the French Revolution because he--consistently--misspelled the word "public" as "pubic."

Gotta love that Committee of Pubic Safety...

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
we consider a a constant, not a linear function

In algebra, I consider nothing to be a constant until told otherwise.

[Akka]

Re: Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!

Originally posted by Eli
(ax)' IS NOT EQUAL to x!!!

* Eli lost 16 points on an exam because of this trivial mistake.

* Eli bangs head against the wall.

* Eli says bye-bye to 90+ maths grade.

If I don't mix with anything,
(ax)' = a
Right ?

[Eli]

Unfortunately, yes.

[Ecthy]

@Boris' 1st