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    4 months ago

    What is this equation? When I see 1/(2πi) I immediately think of inverse Fourier transforms but the DT (instead of dΩ) shoots that down, then I see strange nested logarithms.

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    lol I was struggling in AP statistics, but our midterm and final were all multiple choice so all I had to do was plug in each option to see which one was right. probably would have pulled a D+ out of that class if it weren’t for the incompetent teacher

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      and I’m not just saying that. The only reason I got through that class at all is because I sat between the future valedictorian and the salutatorian and they were capable of teaching themselves out of the book, then passing it on to me. I was in this guy’s class for an entire year and about 6 months in, he said something, and everybody’s heads snapped up at once because it was the first thing he’d said all year that made sense.

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    Sometimes i wonder, am i the only one who found it much easier to reverse engineer the required formula from given data, multiple choice response and the different but similar formula on the other question?

    Once had my class turn against me because a very unskilled teacher wrote a question on the test of which we hadent seen the required formulas in class. But that couldn’t be said the teacher because i the kid who was known to not be able to pay attention to annything found the correct answer.

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        The year i got an internet connection my English grades doubled but its not my first language so yeah no perfect. Deal with it :)

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          Oh, sorry. In English we have this stuff called punctuation. It goes between your sentences.

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            hahaha… pompous ass (bet you had to look that one up you engrish prick).
            how many languages do you speak read and write because I bet it’s not more than one.

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            I tend to overuse commas but i am trying not to because it makes my speech more identifiable in the age if ai.

            Believe it or not, not putting effort in typing increases your privacy online. The important part is i got to say what i wanted and people understood what i meant anyway.

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              I didn’t quite understand what you meant in the first paragraph. I kind of guessed from the second one, but I am still not sure

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      All the time, although nothing this complicated.

      Find X in this formula… okay, I’ll just put in the 4 choices and see which one works.

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        Find X where X is a modifier (a series of calculations) to be used with the provided numbers to end on a specific answers.

        And i often had like 3 different sets of provided numbers and answers to verify if the series of calculations are goin in the right direction. Once you have sm that answers all 3 questions you known its gold.

        Last step is restructuring the “modifier” so it actually looks like a formula.

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      I imagine what is going on is the answers on the multiple choice questions weren’t random and you were picking up on the pattern then retroconing a justification. Say for example

      • A. 12
      • B. 14
      • C. 11
      • D. 68

      You threw out D right away because it was much different and argued that it had to be A or C because being off by one is an easy mistake. Now it’s just a question if even or odd, so you looked for a divide by 2. If found you went odd, if you found a multiple by 2 you went even.

      Added to this you probably noticed a pattern. If C was the correct answer the next one was always A, etc.

      If you aren’t convinced that its just really good test taking ability it would be pretty easy to use an AI and make it quiz you.