Re: [MATHEDCC] If factoring is not important

Sandy Wagner (sandyw@best.com)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:02:54 -0800

At 04:42 PM 03/31/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>"Remember?" You act like this is common knowledge, and not only is it not,
>it's wrong. Have you ever taken a physics course, for instance?

Mark, help me out here. Where do physicists use factoring of trinomials? I
have taught the course, but only in high school. I hope you don't mean
those really difficult to contrive factorable polynomials for the height of
an object at time t.

-Sandy

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