http://mathforum.org/kb List of forum topics en http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475019&tstart=0#1475019 >John Forrest wrote:
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>> The problem I thought I'd run into in the classroom,]]> May 13, 1995 1:20:00 PM May 13, 1995 1:20:00 PM roitman@oberon.math.ukans.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475018&tstart=0#1475018 Ben Dillon writes:
> they wish -1 had not been set up to mean inverse function as well as reciprocal.
> And I]]> May 12, 1995 8:04:44 PM May 12, 1995 8:04:44 PM alper@Ockham.Stanford.EDU 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475017&tstart=0#1475017
> The problem I thought I'd run into in the classroom, which has
> NOT occurred, is the]]> May 12, 1995 7:00:59 PM May 12, 1995 7:00:59 PM BenDillon@aol.com 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475016&tstart=0#1475016
A) x^1 is 1/x

B) f^-1(x) is inverse of f(x)

The problem]]> May 11, 1995 5:22:28 AM May 11, 1995 5:22:28 AM jforrest@umd5.umd.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475015&tstart=0#1475015 with writing x^-1 instead of 1/x. Sometimes it's better left that]]> May 10, 1995 12:34:54 PM May 10, 1995 12:34:54 PM roitman@oberon.math.ukans.edu 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475014&tstart=0#1475014
On Wed, 10 May 1995, KIMBERLY FATH wrote:
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> I am teaching an introductory algebra class at my]]> May 10, 1995 11:07:38 AM May 10, 1995 11:07:38 AM tad@midget.towson.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475013&tstart=0#1475013 reason we rationalize radicals in the denominator...to make the value]]> May 10, 1995 10:37:25 AM May 10, 1995 10:37:25 AM rslewis@tenet.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=1475012&tstart=0#1475012 you knowledgeable folks.

I am teaching an introductory algebra]]> May 10, 1995 9:48:54 AM May 10, 1995 9:48:54 AM FATH@vaxd.sxu.edu 7