This was actually on the air force website
6 years ago by tehtehneh · 1262 Likes · 15 comments · Popular
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natethegreat
· 6 years ago
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I know it's a joke, but where can you actually learn all this stuff?
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guest_
· 6 years ago
High school, college, online, adult education, books, tutor, etc. Most people will have an easier time learning higher math with an instructor to guide them and answer questions, but there's no reason you can't learn it on your own. Make sure you have a solid foundation in arithmetic and algebra. From there it's a lot of remembering rules and formulas. A teacher and experience are two important sources of knowing what formulas to use where, that's what separates a good engineer from someone who memorized a book. You can have the right answer by the numbers but it doesn't matter if you apply the wrong concepts and in real life don't have a working solution to your actual problem.
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guest
· 6 years ago
I’ve learned most of this in high school calculus
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sublimegamer
· 6 years ago
Yeah, it would take a long time to complete, but it looks doable.
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deleted
· 6 years ago
Some of the more complicated looking stuff is just fancy speak for do 2 integrals and to add up a series
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morebacon
· 6 years ago
Is the phone number all the easily visible numbers? Like you dont really have to solve it?
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deleted
· 6 years ago
A possibility.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
Not only would that be funny but it would actually be awesome. Anyone with time, a little smarts, and a calculator/library/google can solve most math problems. But if they hid the number in plain sight and the answer wasn't the phone number- you'd need common sense and clever deduction to get the number, two very useful skills especially for engineers. The military can teach you math pretty easy, but the other stuff is harder to teach if you don't already have it.
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morebacon
· 6 years ago
I might have a chance at being a janitor in the Air Force then.
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guest_
· 6 years ago
The slogan is "aim high" so I dig the ambition there.
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deleted
· 6 years ago
Looked it up, the problem is incorrect
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ghostwolf
· 6 years ago
The answer is 42.... didn't calculate it, just an assumption....
deleted
· 6 years ago
The answer to everything is 42 my man.
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marcus5
· 6 years ago
copy paste it into wolfram alpha
cazkey
· 6 years ago
As retired Air Force I have ask WTF is that?
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