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Re: Mathematical Discoveries

I too am a math fanatic. I've taken literaly every math class possible in my high school, and am now in AP Stats. I remember a few years back we were hypothetically talking about how to balance something on a board in a robotics meeting. What started with a simple diagram of "this is the center of where the three weights should be" turned into "if we have it like this then the force from gravity isn't pointing directly through the board anymore so the forces are technicaly less and with..." so on and so forth. It eventualy took up a whole classroom whiteboard with me solving every new aspect of the equation that came up, with other teammates double-checking my work with calculators and such. The conversation eventualy ended in about 5 hours. One of the happiest moments of my life.
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