• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Can someone please explain this to us smoothbrains who never finished school? I see a for-loop on the left, and some sort of integral on the right, but that’s about it…

    • @themaninblackOP
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      Yep the left is just measuring via repeated addition of slices n times, the right is the same but the slice thinness can approach 0, and the number of times approaches infinity

    • @abigscaryhobo
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      It’s basically taking the measurement of the area under a curve. The left does it in uniform chunks, and is often less accurate depending on delta x (the size of the chunks). The right effectively makes the size of the “chunks” infinitely small and gives a more accurate answer.

      Simple version: Me: Close but either too much or too little potat removed. Mom: absolutely perfect with no skin and no wasted potat.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Sometimes when I’m peeling potatoes, I will peel more aggressively than even the version on the left, because sometimes I want the potatoes to look pretty.

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      Their technique barely gets them close to their goal, while their mother removes all of the peel, but none of the rest perfectly.

  • @iAvicenna
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    321 month ago

    my grandma peeling potatoes

    • @AllYourSmurf
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      91 month ago

      I’m sure that’s true, but this one went over my head. Help?

      • @iAvicenna
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        301 month ago

        this is a surface integral so the joke is (loosely): as opposed to peeling in straight strips (line integral), grandma is peeling continuously without lifting her hand

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s a surface integral of a vector F over a surface S. I guess they are extending the joke from 1D to a 2D surface which is smoothly integrated (peeled).

  • @[email protected]
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    141 month ago

    Left is short cuts of straight lines, simple but more waste. Right is curved cuts following the profile exactly, harder to do but less waste.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 month ago

      Gosh, this is horrifying. I can only assume that was your intention, so congrats if so. Is this a real bird? Surely not

      • Count Regal Inkwell
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        41 month ago

        I will not hear potoo slander in this house young lady. Or man. I don’t know your gender.

        Point being potoos are cute derps.

      • @lath
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        41 month ago

        Hahaha! It’s a Potoo. For me, it was love at first sight. They look amazing!

        Also, don’t call me Shirley.