Towering intellectual feats

[Lorizael]

I know the dot product, and I knew it before I decided to go back to school (which means I learned it in high school math).

[Ban Kenobi]

No one knows your esoteric math, HC and regexcellent.

The rest of us haven't had a math class in a decade or more and have never had to use anything beyond basic algebra and statistics.

Yuk it up but you're in the tiny minority.

If I can remember something I guarantee it's not "esoteric".

[snrjefe]

"They" just like to change the names of math stuff from time to time so another "they" can sell new textbooks.

[Al B. Sure!]

If I can remember something I guarantee it's not "esoteric".

You want to make a poll? We already got Elok, rah, and myself not knowing what it is.

[Ban Kenobi]

So it's 4-3 so far?

[N35t0r]

I learned dot and vector products in years 9 or 10 for my IGCSEs. And again in years 11 and 12 for my IBs. And again in my uni's Linear Algebra course. And the first phyisics course. Argh.

[Al B. Sure!]

So it's 4-3 so far?

So far. If it's close to 50-50 on a site like this, I'll bet my life on the general population.

[Lorizael]

As I said earlier in the thread, I'm sure the general population has no idea what the dot product is.

[Hauldren Collider]

Yeah, don't remember learning that at all. Of course, everything after Algebra II is a bit of a blur. I know we didn't spend all of Trig learning about cosines and such, but that's all I can remember of it. That, and this thing where we drew an oval using a string attached to two pegs in a board. Pre-cal, I remember nothing but derivatives. Calc, I remember an amusing anecdote of the teacher's about a cow getting drunk on fermented watermelon. Also a far less amusing Hamlet reference (2x OR NOT 2x HAHAHA) that he pulled out at every damn opportunity. The actual subject I remember as utterly incomprehensible. Probably some combination of his teaching and my senioritis. I didn't even want to take the stupid course, I'd have rather left it at Pre-Cal, but I had to take a math every year. Grr.

So, yeah. That's new to me.

Hm. Well I'm currently taking 4 math classes (out of five classes this semester, the other one is programming) so perhaps it's a little fresher in my memory But the dot product is not esoteric. I learned it in middle school (8th grade geometry).

[Hauldren Collider]

Anyway, it's not even real math until you start talking about sets and graphs

[dannubis]

And the first phyisics course. Argh.

Yeah, ****ing boring electro magnetism...

[pchang]

seems it is more like 2:1 for knows what a dot product is vs. does not know what a dot product is.

[Elok]

Well then, somebody's e-penis just leveled up. Maybe you get a perk?

[Dauphin]

Don't know what a dot product is? Next Albie will tell us no-one knows what grad, div and curl are! How rare!

[regexcellent]

Yeah I can forgive him for not knowing vector calculus but dot products are pretty basic math that I got taught in middle school.