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6:38 PM
hello
I need some help with mathjax
I basically have a complicated equation for a question but I can't type it in mathjax
is there any way one of you nice people would be willing to take my equation and put it in mathjax?
@EricSilva could you help?
halp
 
ok i just went through this yesterday
 
top right of the screen click the link where it says latex in chat
 
what happened
 
6:47 PM
ohh lol different link
i can view mathjax but I can't write it well
 
in terms of you knowing the language or your computer not rendering it?
 
knowing the language
 
oh ok
 
2nd time i needed it
 
that I can't help you with other than to give you a link
 
6:48 PM
@Christopher2EZ4RTZ: You should recognize the first integral as $-b/a$ times the area of a semicircle of radius $a$. The second term integrates to $2ab$, of course.
 
@TedShifrin I just need the latex to use in my question :P
 
ok gotcha
 
But I answered the question :) You want \int_{-a}^a \big(-\frac{b}{a}\sqrt{a^2-x^2}+b\big)dx ... That's the hard part.
 
hold up
 
@DavidReed i got it (martin gave it)
 
6:56 PM
Howdy, Demonark.
 
How's it going?
 
Going fine, and you?
Done with finals yet?
 
hi @TedShifrin, @Daminark.
 
hi @Antonios.
 
or should I edit it?
 
7:00 PM
Just did both my finals this morning
 
You should have some parentheses inside the integral for clarity, as I put them. Do you want an answer to your question? I already gave you most of the answer.
 
Hey Antonios!
 
Wait, two finals already? I guess they're not 3-hour finals.
 
Hi everyone! What abot link text?
 
7:01 PM
2 hour finals
 
Aha.
I was used to 3-hour, both as a student and as a prof.
 
@TedShifrin I need to post it to main (added some edits btw) so I can show my old math teacher the proof
 
Hmm, OK.
 
I see. I think I prefer 2 hours since a day like today would've been draining if I had to test for 6 hours almost straight
 
@TedShifrin does the newest version look fine?
 
7:03 PM
I prefer 3 hours to give people time to think and for the exam to be somewhat comprehensive.
 
Yeah that's fair
 
You don't need the big parentheses, unless you remove the fraction and just write 1/2 times the whole thing.
 
One of my professors gave us about 4 and a half hours for the test.
 
anything else?
 
7:05 PM
Last year she gave them unlimited time and a harder test but someone took 8-9 hours, which she felt was cruel to the TA
 
Well, Christopher, it's good enough.
 
@TedShifrin what should i title it?
 
I don't know. It's basically "What is an explanation for this equality?" You do not want to do the integral by some horrendous means. As I said, you want to observe how it's related to the area of a semicircle. And then it's immediate.
 
One of my friends has extra time for his exams (well – did in undergrad) and they were 6 hours long.
 
7:09 PM
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Q: Proof request for finding the area of a rectangle using an ellipse and an integral.

Christopher 2EZ 4RTZ$$\frac{\int_{-a}^a (-\frac ba \sqrt{a^2-x^2} + b\;)\mathrm{d}x + \frac{\pi ab}2}2=ab$$ The above equation finds the area of a rectangle given A and B (both > 0). I wrote this myself as a challenge. Using desmos I verified that it was true (the desmos). I was wondering if someone could write a pr...

 
hey @Ted!
 
hi @Lucas.
How's life with linear algebra? :)
 
@Antonios-AlexandrosRobotis oh wow that's a lot
But yeah these two were tests that I kind of enjoyed
How's it going with you Ted and Antonios?
 
7:44 PM
not bad. Finally beginning to understand what this algebraic NT stuff is about.
 
7:54 PM
ramification = branch points of covering maps
algebraic NT = geometry done over bad fields
algebra is just geometry made complicated
 
@BalarkaSen algebraic geometry = geometry over the best fields?
 
(I am joking; don't let the pretentiousness get you)
 
Ugh geometry not again
 
@Alessandro complex geometry = geometry over the best fields
the best fields are obviously 1) C 2) C 3) C
 
Of course
Well you need an algebraically closed field and C is the only one, right? :P
 
7:57 PM
Gotta write a geometry diss track
 
@Alessandro Correct
 
"It's char p bro with the finish field flow"
 
Dabs at @Daminark's general direction
 

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