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Ooh, I like special points!  I'll do this instead of study chem.  Hurray!
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So I thought I had it like three different times before realizing I had substituted something incorrectly.  So I give up for now, but not forever. [[User:Jhunsber|His Awesomeness, Josh Hunsberger]]
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I'm almost certain that it ''can'' be done with trig, but every attempt I have made has always turned into a horrible, horrible integral.  You'd have to abuse some obscure identities to work out the powers of tangent and secant, I think.
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--[[User:Jmason|John Mason]]
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Yeah, I got sec^5 and sec^3 involved, but it's hard from there.

Latest revision as of 15:22, 21 October 2008

Oh, and using maple is definitely cheating!

--John Mason

Ooh, I like special points! I'll do this instead of study chem. Hurray!

So I thought I had it like three different times before realizing I had substituted something incorrectly. So I give up for now, but not forever. His Awesomeness, Josh Hunsberger

I'm almost certain that it can be done with trig, but every attempt I have made has always turned into a horrible, horrible integral. You'd have to abuse some obscure identities to work out the powers of tangent and secant, I think.

--John Mason

Yeah, I got sec^5 and sec^3 involved, but it's hard from there.

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