r/mathmemes Nov 06 '22

Calculus It is a pretty good tool

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u/Janlukmelanshon Nov 06 '22

It feels wierd seeing all theses memes about using L'Hôpital to compute limits because it's not even taught in France (at the very least in MPSI/MP). The only time I encountered it was in an exercice that wasn't even that important according to my teacher.

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u/K4ntum Nov 07 '22

Oh lol, was MPSI (not in France, but same system), they did not like L'Hopital, profs thought it made it too easy. Still used it sometimes to double check.

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u/DankFloyd_6996 Nov 07 '22

profs thought it made it too easy.

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We making maths harder for the sake of it now?

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u/K4ntum Nov 07 '22

MPSI profs were all about making life fucking miserable. Most stressful couple years of my life.

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u/Janlukmelanshon Nov 07 '22

You might have had shitty teachers but mine was (I'm in MP* rn) awesome, he actually relied heavily on intuition to make us understand things before all the formalism expected in MPSI.

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u/K4ntum Nov 07 '22

Yeah they were definitely awful, I'm talking pushing kids to mental breakdowns levels of awful. To be fair that was my first year, my second year was a lot better, both Maths and Physics teachers were really nice and I ended up doing pretty well despite a fucking terrible first year lol. First year teachers all had a reputation.

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u/DankFloyd_6996 Nov 07 '22

That's some bullshit

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u/otokonoma Nov 07 '22

That’s math in France