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As per the deadline, I have to go with the later -- Friday, Midnight -- but if you get it to me by Thursday night, I'll get it graded by Friday -- in case there are any issues you should be aware of before the exam.
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Here's the recording of Thursday's lab
Today we're looking at "Pitfalls" in Mathematica -- here's one in IMath: you have to be careful how hard you round your numbers. Someone reached out to me, and had the correct answer -- but had truncated a slope to three digits, and that wasn't enough. IMath counted it wrong.
If you ever think that you're right and IMath is wrong, just let me know -- I can look at your response within IMath, and (hopefully!) figure out what went wrong....
I am often also available for zooms at odd hours, if necessary.
There are functions which you've encountered previously, and those which we are encountering now -- and we want you to become friends with them.
We use these functions to model the world, and each class of functions has its special features and its special role. We'll go over some of those now: