will the McCain campaign use Biden's calculus reference against him?

[Enrique]

I mean, everyone hates math, right?


http://sum1ton.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/oh-my-god/

Biden: Folks, remember your calculus classes from undergraduate school, you few crazy people who were engineers, God love ya? But all kidding aside, remember your calculus class you learned about an inflection point? That’s the point at which, like, you’re driving your car, where the steering wheel is dead straight, and once you make a move, even to a degree, you commit that automobile hurdling in a direction you can’t immediately change. Well, in American history, there have been about four or five inflection points…

[InNeedOfUserName]

1. Nope, tooo complicated, but Biden got it wrong...

n differential calculus, an inflection point, or point of inflection (or inflexion) is a point on a curve at which the curvature changes sign. The curve changes from being concave upwards (positive curvature) to concave downwards (negative curvature), or vice versa. If one imagines driving a vehicle along the curve, it is a point at which the steering-wheel is momentarily "straight", being turned from left to right or vice versa.


from mathworld


An inflection point is a point on a curve at which the sign of the curvature (i.e., the concavity) changes. Inflection points may be stationary points, but are not relative maxima or relative minima. For example, for the curve plotted above, the point is an inflection point.

[InNeedOfUserName]

2. Inertia...

The Law of Inertia states that moving objects go in a straight line.

Biden was confused

[EnviroBat]

4. Please, just stop already.

Biden was not confused. Your obviously clearly superior mind is a legend in it's own time.

[gatorboy]

10. Nice cut and paste, Einstein.

Hey, I think I've found a name for you! :P

[Alter Ego]

3. My guess is probably not.

[Moochy]

5. No.

Calcu-what? Is that like a cash register?

[GoesTo11]

6. An educated person should know calculus

Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Calculus. That is a reasonable high-school course in most industrialized countries. Or take calculus as a college freshman. If you are avoiding it because you don't want to do things that make you think hard, ok, you didn't take it. But it's something anyone can learn and it's entirely appropriate to expect the VP and Pres to know it. The world is laughing at us for laughing at Biden. Why do we only want idiots? I'd rather have the smartest guy in the country. Maybe he could figure out why the plants are dying.

[Alter Ego]

7. Biden forgot his college calculus--he's a politician. That's all right.

When he forgets basic economics or that 2 x 2 = 4, let me know and I'll start panicking.

[BlueIdaho]

8. The McCain will try to use the fact Joe got out of bed this morning against him. nt.

[ITsec]

9. I took calculus 30 years ago, I would have had to look that one up

Of course, Calculus class was in competition with Herbs 101, so it's no wonder I've forgotten.

:hippie:

[treestar]

11. They haven't yet mentioned the fact that he knows it exists

means he must be an elitist? :rofl: