[conspire] Password permutations (was: Correction)

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Apr 15, 2020, at 18:20, Texx <texxgadget at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As it turns out, after flunking Trig & Logs 3 times in college, I finally picked them up in 2010 from a Wikipedia article of all things!
> That last line is a major portion of my often flogged point about how few math teachers actuually know what they are talking about.

I actually flunked Calculus the second time I took it. I took it the second time because the first time I’d taken a semester and then I’d switched over to a quarter system school. *eyeroll*

However, my dad, who could do calc in his sleep (physicist), recommended I skip Trig as it was a waste of time. I believed him. Now, for him that was probably true, but for me, it was not true. 

Naturally, they integrated trig in from the beginning and it just messed with my brain, and I flunked that second time through.  Since I was at Cal Poly and there were like zero majors for people without calc, I packed it in at that point and went back to working as a scientific programmer. :P

I went through and slogged through learning the trig later, then went to pick up the calculus, only to realize that I *did* understand it. It’s just that math was taught faster than I integrated it. So if it’s taught in 9 months, it took me 12-14 to really think with it. Unfortunately, this doesn’t translate well into school terms. I just kept feeling like I was more and more behind.

Deirdre
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