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Acer
2004-09-01, 02:52 PM
I am doing some Calc AP homework, and for some reason I can't remember how to get X if its the power of a number like....

a=10
a^x = 100
I know x=2 but mathematicaly I cant figure out how to get that answer, I keep seeing how then forgetting its annoying lol, can anyone help?

Demosthenes
2004-09-01, 03:24 PM
I am doing some Calc AP homework, and for some reason I can't remember how to get X if its the power of a number like....

a=10
a^x = 100
I know x=2 but mathematicaly I cant figure out how to get that answer, I keep seeing how then forgetting its annoying lol, can anyone help?

Logarithms.

Log (subscript a)10 = x.

iceman887
2004-09-01, 03:51 PM
that is algebra 2 stuff, you know a lot of stuff mjordan

Demosthenes
2004-09-01, 03:57 PM
I've taken Algebra 2. I'm taking 10th/11th grade classes, so that's why.

Grav
2004-09-01, 04:25 PM
That's something you don't know and you're in AP Calc? Wow.

iceman887
2004-09-01, 04:59 PM
how do you get to take those classes at your age?, and i agree with graviton

Demosthenes
2004-09-01, 05:00 PM
I skipped two grades.

Thanatos
2004-09-01, 05:23 PM
You meant to say, "I skipped two grades." as that is proper grammar.

Just messin' with ya, man. :o

iceman887
2004-09-01, 05:45 PM
holy moly 2 grades, no wonder

Demosthenes
2004-09-01, 06:00 PM
You meant to say, "I skipped two grades." as that is proper grammar.

Just messin' with ya, man. :o

Fixed, upon your request.

Titusfied
2004-09-01, 06:48 PM
Heh, that isn't that bad. Just wait until you take transforms. Then you forget all that trivial Calculus, until you brush up on it at least.

Demosthenes
2004-09-01, 06:49 PM
What the hell is transforms?

Shining Knights
2004-09-01, 06:52 PM
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Titusfied
2004-09-01, 06:53 PM
Like LaPlace, Fourier, and Z-Transforms. There are a shit load of them, and they are extremely in depth and difficult to understand, at first at least.

MightyJoe
2004-09-01, 07:10 PM
Screw that I am taking Pre Calc and a business based Calc which doesn't have Trig in it. I depise math now, since the last 3 years of high school math I have had shitty ass teachers.

-=Rico-GP=-
2004-09-01, 07:21 PM
Robots in disguise.

Acer
2004-09-02, 01:41 PM
I said I couldnt remember... I was actually sleeping and woke up and couldnt sleep and it flashed in my head.... I took Pre-Calc in 11, and last year I didnt take a math and I am repeating 12th, I am little rusty

Penny_Bags
2004-09-02, 01:48 PM
What the hell is transforms?
Ugh Ron transfiguration is bloddy wonderful! Absolutely extraordinary, but Potion with Snape, that's bloddy pissy chap!

Grav
2004-09-02, 01:56 PM
Fuck you for that.