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.

2 comments:

Terroni said...

Stiction is exactly how I would describe my kitchen floor right now. (We seem to have had a bit of a spill.)

j-dub said...

I think Television had a song about stiction....

well, almost.