As a child, I read a book called Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In the book, everything goes wrong for Alexander, from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. Some of the bad things involve his older brothers or kids at school, and some of them are just freak accidents. Alexander repeatedly makes comments about wanting to run away to Australia, presumably to leave his bad day behind.
I felt like Alexander today.
I had math class in the morning, and I had to turn in an assignment incomplete. The problem in the textbook used something called Lagrange multipliers, another way to do minimization problems. The example in the book was to find the dimensions of a can that has minimum surface area for a certain volume, which I already knew how to do a different way. Lagrange multipliers in the…
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