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I could go on for a while, but probably would never quite get to the point.
Out with it, already
Nearly everything
Almost all there is tuh know
My knowledge on them has its limits
You can keep asking, but over time you’ll learn less and less and never get the whole answer.
I was expecting answers but got jokes, not disappointed, just enjoying the jokes.
As for asymptotes, many mathematical functions have a value they are going towards but never quite reach. One example would be to start with 1 and then halve it, then halve it, then halve it, and keep going forever. It will trend towards 0 but never ever reach it.
Another example of approaching 0 is y = 1/x which is a cool graph. There is a curve which starts just to the right of the Y axis at maximum Y value and comes almost straight down, curves out to 1,1 then shoots out along towards the X axis almost but never reaching it. The cool thing is it does the exact same in the lower left quadrant with the line coming from the negative X axis, passing -1,-1, the shooting down the Y axis.
It’s what happens when a very naughty function tries to divide by zero.
The teacher who taught pre-calc got worse and worse at teaching, but never reach the line to get them fired.
I had As in math before I got that dipshit. He failed like half the class, everyone else got Cs and Ds.
I don't like them apples.
Almost everything, but not quite.
What is there to know? They're when a line gets to infinity in a specific coordinate axis, right?
Introduced through trig functions, then calculus limits, then logarithms and exponentiation.
I can identify them in a police line-up of geometry stuff.
They’re extreme at the limits.
sorry, but my memory doesn't reach that far
I wonder if a reacharound can be plotted. Also how would it look graphically
My old teacher used the line "You don't know your asymptote from a hole on the graph."
It tickled a bunch of immature high schoolers.