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Re: Funny things teachers/professors have said

My Calc 1 prof was talking about indeterminate forms before showing us L'Hopital's rule, and he said, "If you had 0/0, then that would be dragons... because dragons don't exist, so they make no sense."

My electricity & magnetism prof this term is named Jim Martin, and we were studying AC circuits. He was showing us how to use phasors and expressing them in polar form and whatnot, and started writing "j" instead of "i" for complex numbers, and explained that this is common practice for electrical engineers since lowercase "i" is often used to represent current, but the main reason he used j instead of i was that he liked to think that "j stands for Jim."
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