NeonBlack Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 An extra-credit question at the end of my calc final today: What is the opposite of tree? This doesn't require a math based answer. The best I could do was log(tree) Just wondering what you guys can come up with? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettyLouWho Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Hi Neon. My first math based thought is, of course, negative tree. Hey, would that tree have a square root? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzurePhoenix Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Opposite of the tree? A potato plant, because the important part of the tree is above ground, the important part of the potato plant is underground . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevermore Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 This is where [math] \infty [/math] comes into play, you can always have another trait for the opposide of tree to be opposite to. eg. this cell is brown, this cell is green, this atom has a slightly misshapen nucleus ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeonBlack Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 Nevermore: Yes, you could say just about anything, but the point is to come up with somewhat creative/clever answers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevermore Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Annoying sarcastic technicalities are my specialty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BettyLouWho Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 Did your classmates come up with anything creative? Just curious. What sort of sense of humour does your teacher have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 1/tree? -1/tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeonBlack Posted May 5, 2005 Author Share Posted May 5, 2005 [MATH] tree^{-1} [/MATH] my instructor told us that eert and root would be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted May 5, 2005 Share Posted May 5, 2005 [MATH] tree^{-1} [/MATH]my instructor told us that eert and root would be wrong. i win. [math]tree^{-1}[/math] =1/tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMoosie Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 If you answer correctly would you get more marks? Sounds very unfair to me. Are you sure that by tree it was meant litterally a tree that lives and grows in the dirt? Or the concept of the network of a tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 i think tree is simply an arbitrary noun the teacher picked to check if they understood the ideas behind ^-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towjyt Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 Opposite of the tree? A potato plant, because the important part of the tree is above ground, the important part of the potato plant is underground . The potato is the first thing that I thought of too and for the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 2, 2005 Share Posted June 2, 2005 i would have thought either log or ~tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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