What do you do when you get stuck on a problem, /sci/? Do you

>>7707590
take a 5-10 minute break
don't think about it, don't do other problems
just get up and walk around, listen to music
then get back to it

I let it be and consider other problems. Then later a new try.

Google

>>7707597
>>7707604
>>7707609

ayy

i do one of these three things

>>7707597
This. When it's still not working after a few iterations, I take some amphetamines. Those seem to always help.

I play some really simple game that relaxes my thoughts, but still forces me to think just enough to forget the problem that I was stuck with. Agar.i works pretty well for me usually. Then after I while I come back to the problem and usually see where I was stuck. I use this strategy while coding.

I usually smoke some weed and try to do the problem high. I end up with the right answer most of the time

None here actually tries to talk to other people about it? Sure it is kind of a last resort and we're all fucking spergs, but as a matter of fact I found it to be one of the most effective and most efficient things to do.

>>7707590
Do something else for a while. Take up juggling.

I think out loud about what I am doing. If it doesn't work, then I think about some other problem (there is always more you can do) or take a break/nap.
Talking to people can also help if you are really stuck for a long time.

>>7707590
wolfram

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>>7708081
>tfw no math buddies
>tfw too schizoid to talk to classmates
>tfw /sci/ is the only place where I can discuss problems

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>>7708223
google and TA's are your (and my) only friends in uni

>>7708287
Oh yeah, most of the TAs and lecturers are very nice.

>>7707637
amphetamines for me tunnel vision me and block my thinking when I get anxious.

Visualize the fuck out of it and try to approach it from previously unthought of angles.

Formulas, obviously I apply the fucking formulas.

>>7707590
Chegg, boi.

backtrack and see if i missed any cloos

I go for a shit.

I do some of my best thinking while squeezing out a turd or two.

>>7708081
I don't (and I think most people don't) really know people who are both a) interested and b) capable of understanding the problem.

Overcomplicate it immensely. I was stuck on a rotational motion problem in my physics class for like a half an hour so I proceeded to start attacking it with geometric algebra and writing the quantities as bivectors etc.
Well all I ended up doing was wasting another hour and the answer ended up being relatively simple.

Call my sister who is a math major and ask her for help.

>>7707590

Post it on /sci/ with one of those shitty "You should be able to solve this" pictures

>>7708662
Can you pass her number? I have some Derivatives that need multiple applications of the Strokes theorem and I don't think I'll be able to make it out myself.

>>7708703
Sure

(555)-123-4567

>>7708703
STOP BEING STUPID IT'S NOT DIFFICULT