Wednesday, January 09, 2008

word of the day

No kidding, straight out of my text book:


the tayl1 of the Taylor series, r(x, t0) is order |x-x0|2

1This misspelling of “tail” is standard in the literature for comic intent.



Note to self: there are much better ways to make math more amusing.




Later in the text: "sticky friction, or stiction, ...."

No footnote, no quotations, no apologies this time.