what's the most brainlet question you've ever heard

"What's a derivative ?" in a differential geometry class and "What does euclidean mean ?" by the end of a semester course on riemannian geometry.
That guy really cracked me up., He wasn't even that bad (very clever problem solver) but he just had brainfarts sometimes.

>>8617624
euclidean means paths that don't intersect are parallel lines right.

>>8617629
Well the guy had forgotten what a euclidean space is (in this context it's just a finite-dimensional vector space with an inner product), which was especially funny since we had spent a semester talking about locally euclidean things.
I'm not sure what you mean by path tho so I don't know how to answer your question

>>8617611
You're a moron. At least these "brainlets" have balls to ask what they've got problems with instead of being insecure of fedora virgin cunts like you judging them.

>>8617652
Better than a brainlet question, I have found an actual brainlet who asks these questions.

>>8578230

>>8617611
"Will this be on the exam"?

>>8617665
that's a valid question because nobody would study all the chapters on dumb shit like le epsilon or hyperbolic garbage.

>>8617670
Only brainlets forsake knowledge.

>>8617611
>why?
the worst part is he was in an advanced class.

>>8617665
Kek.

Our professor said sometimes "No, it _probably_ will not."
Exam time coming. The topics he said wouldn't be on the exam are primary the focus of the exam and 3/4 of all students raged and cried gud. Based prof

>>8617665
>prof says yes
>it ends up not being on the fucking exam


what did he mean by this?

>>8617670
>t. brainlet

>>8617688
"Stop bothering me with that, cunts, just study the damn thing."

>>8617688
he meant "master everything"

>>8617611
>"If DNA has bases, then where are its acids?"

3rd year biology student

>>8617708
Well, answer him. Where are its acids?

Is this [insert class]?
>No
*Gets up*
Sorry, excuse me, sorry, whoops almost fell, sorry

This actually happened to me in last high school year during a history class.

>Teacher talking about colonialism in Latin
>Says something about the Viceroyalty of Brazil
>Hot blonde raises her hand
>Asks who is the current king of Brazil
>top kek

>>8617732
you know how tight the seats are? it's not my fault i'm not a fucking manlet.

>>8617665
Are Americans really this stupid?

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>>8617665
This

>>8617670
It's a brainlet question because 90% of the time the answer is "it's in the syllabus you fucking moron"

>>8617742
Why was the teacher speaking Latin?

>>8617611
just about every memorylet moment I've ever seen in history classes is done by bio and math majors. had one retard ask the professor why socialists don't just use horses instead of trains and buses

>>8617708
Lol this is fucked up on multiple levels

>>8617801
Americans education is basically handed to you once you pay the $$$. It would't even suprise me when some Professors are giving out 1:1 example problems and questions relevant to the exam

>>8617856
It's funny cuz it's true

Depending on your department

>>8617825
I meant Latin America

I don't ask questions in lecture, because my asp is too potent.

However, I've made an ass of myself in online classes plenty of times. I think the best was in an online trig class. I'd just learned about the domain quirks of trig functions, how there are infinitely many angles with the same sine/cosine values, and if you want to be specific, you need to restrict your domain.

Well, my numberphile-loving freshman brain got thinking about that, and after a while I realized that you can generate a one-to-one sine function by graphing it as a helix in three dimensions. Look at it end on, and it's like you're looking at a unit circle, look at it from the top and side, and that's your sine and cosine.

So I held onto that for a day or two, then one night I had a few whiskeys and suddenly it seemed like a good idea to post about it on the class discussion boards. So I did.

Except I was a little more lit than I realized, and the post ended up being incomprehensible. My dick of an instructor replied sarcastically, saying he had no idea what I was trying to say, and either I was way off track, or I'd stumbled on a new math concept that I should publish ASAP, either way I should keep it off his boards.

I was just drunk enough to believe I'd found a new theorem. Until I woke up the next morning and reread it all. And seriously considered dropping out to hide from my shame.

>>8617955
>community colleges woes
lmao

>>8617624
I'm glad I'm not the only person like this

>>8617825
Probably meant Latin America

>in chemistry 1, not intro to chemistry

>"why aren't both letters capitalized?"
>"Is it called electronegativity because electrons are negative?"
>"what does plum pudding have to do with atoms?"
>"a metal and non metal make ionic bonds, covalent is when two nonmetals bond, but what do you call metallic atoms bonding?"

>>8617867
>>8617991
I know, I was doing a le funny joke.

>>8617856
My calculus 2 class had a study guide for the final exam which had the same problem types in equal proportions to the exam itself for the long answer problems.

"What is basis" after a semester of linear algebra

>>8617856
They are. I was in a 4th year comsci where the professor gave out a practice exam that had solutions on another page. The exam was exactly the same but with different numbers, It was open note final exam too, yet somebody still failed that class.

someone computer 'different architectures' meant compiling for desktop or laptop

>>8617665
>>8617801
>>8617856
I just want to pass my classes and get on with my degree. Why do I have to waste my time ""learning"" (memorizing) extraneous garbage in Math if it'll
1) Not even be on an exam (waste of time studying)
2) Not help me in anyway after I'm done with the class or after graduation and only hurt me if I don't get an A.

Fuck Math. I didn't major in math or engineering so why is so much of THIS TRASH REQUIRED FOR MY MAJOR AND RUINING MY GPA?

>What's the equation for a unit circle?

Seriously, how do these people get in?

>>8617611

> physics class
> greek letter tau referring to torque is mentioned
> "isn't that that thing with like 2 pi radians in a circle"


I can tell he watched the numbercuck video about an alternative pi that is circumference divided by diameter instead of radius called tau

The sperg who asked actually gained street cred from me at least because I know only real OG autists watch numberphile

>>8618142
art student go embarass yourself at >>>/ic/

>>8618003
all of your questions sound like intro to chemistry

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Professor:
>So, then we get the famous Navier-Stokes Equations.
>This system has never been solved since it's conception and is believed unsolvable.
Student:
>If it's unsolvable, doesn't that mean its not a real equation.

mfw

>>8618145
i bet you don't even know it off hand.

>>8618263
r=1 in polar coordinates

easy peasy where's my fields medal

>>8618284
>polar coordinates

lmfao this guy making up shit to sound intelligent.

>>8618263

is it x^2+y^2=1?

>>8618285
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_coordinate_system

I am so sorry you were born retarded.

>>8618289
that's just the equation for a circle whose radius is 1

>>8618290
nice fake wiki faggot

>>8618145
parameterised according to the real and true number system, the rational numbers, and not the crazy, schizophrenic invention that is the """""""""""""""""real numbers"""""""""""""" it goes:

[math]t \in Rat, \left( \frac{2t}{1+t^2}, \frac{1-t^2}{1+t^2} \right) [/math]

>>8618290
Polar coordinate? Kek. Are you going to pull out your arctic coordinates next?

>>8618295
That is not an equation, that is just a set description. It is not the same. The equation for rational numbers is actually the same as for real numbers, you dummy. Do you even wild your bergers?

>>8618292

is that not what the unit circle is??????

>>8618308
the unit circle is a circle whose radius is 1. all you did was give an equation for it. big difference. mat his about precision here. im sorry but you're going to have to redo the 5th grade billy.

>>8618331
>all you did was give an equation for it.

>>What's the equation for a unit circle
>>8618145

>>8617652
Your insure bru. Fix that fir yourself

>>8618263
x^2 + y^2 = 1
literally a circle with radius of unity lol
xy = 1 is unit hyperbola
etc

>>8617611
>how can something have 5 dimensions
Asked by biology student in a grad level course when the teacher showed some formula where some parameter was^5

>>8618401
was it a spatial parameter? if so then in context it may have been a matter of how it can have 5 spatial parameters.

>>8618003
I learnt that in high school? Are you American?

I'm teaching a basic (essentially remedial) geometry class. I recently covered the conditions for triangle congruence, just your standard ASA, AAS, etc.

"Will this be on the test?"
"...Yeah."
>mass groaning

>>8618142
The difference between being a high schooler and a scholar is that as a scholar one is not supposed to ask "do I have to know this for the exam?" but "how can I learn more about this?"
You deserve that bad GPA.

>>8618425
>Are you from the country with the best high education in the world?
There's nothing wrong with introductory classes, they are there so people who didn't have the opportunity to have a real education in high school can still get a degree. There are Honors classes for those who did have an education that people like you who laugh at the American education probably wouldn't even dream of being able to keep up with.

>>8617611
"But teacher, i don't understand, how can 'x' be a number?"

>>8617955
I used to shitpost on FB when I was drunk as fuck. I'd post some crazy ass shit. Closed my account a year ago and never looked back. Alcohol and social media don't mix well.

I asked if the boundary of a set is the same as the boundary of it's compliment. Professor said yes, I then asked if we need to prove (intro proofs via analysis class) that, smart kid next to me laughed at me derisively.

I still remember that laugh 4 years later.

>>8617611
Towards the end of multivariable calculus
>What's a scalar product?

Same guy in quantum mechanics
>What does the upside down triangle mean?

>>8617611
"Can you give an example of a real life black hole?"

>>8617708
Well, it's at the carboxyl part, right? Why's that a stupid question?

>>8618999
Also trips

>>8617708
>DNA
>Deoxyribonucleic acid
>acid
>a c i d

>>8618459

is this what you tell those students in your class that ask this? I bet girls love you

>>8618991
Bend over and spread your legs

>>8617742
>flashback in high school history class
>teacher having small talk about Henry Hudson and New York
>someone asks the teacher
>but who's the king of New York

>>8618991
That's not too bad of a question desu

>>8618459
>undergrad
>scholar
kys dude, realize you're still retarded and learn to enjoy your life a bit

>>8619037
>>8619176
>learning more than what's expected of you means you're a bookworm
brainlets, i swear

>>8618295
That's not an equation. In bizarro geometry, it would probably be Q((x,y)) = 1

>>8618142
>this is the type of terminal brainlet infesting college campuses
No wonder China is beating us

I asked my thermodynamics prof how total energy in the universe can be constant, yet kinetic energy is relative.
I was going to ask about how constant speed of light and e=mc^2 works with relativity and energy too but she seemed mad at me for asking, probably should've waited until after class.

>>8619026
>>8618999
>>8617725
Bases in the context of DNA refers to the letters, it has nothing to do with acid-base chemistry.

When we're being shown a complex derrivation or worked problem in physics, and someone at the end after the professor is about to move onto something else asks "what does the (variable) stand for?" exposing to the room that they weren't following the material at all.

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>prof: this is the plum pudding model. It was initially thought to be the correct model for atomic structure, but we know today that is not the case. the corr--
>WHHOOAAAAA so is that wat atoms actualleyy LOOK LIKE??????

>>8619609
>A nitrogenous base, or nitrogen-containing base, is an organic molecule with a nitrogen atom that has the chemical properties of a base.
>that has the chemical properties of a base.

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>sitting next to some guy in a programming class
>prof is going through some slides on converting numbers from binary to base 10
>the guy asks how you're supposed to "know" how to calculate numbers like 2^5 without a calculator
>the entire class looks at him
I legitimately had second hand embarrassment.

>>8619237
no one called you a bookworm. lmao faggot

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>>8618285
made my night holyy shit

>why does the bigger rock fall at the same time as the smaller one?

>Physics course (Electrodynamics)
>Conservative Vector Fields
>brainlet demands to know what our
>Professor means by "conservative"
>obvious /pol/itard is obvious
>twenty minutes wasted on cooling him down
>he drops the couse next week
>sigh of relief

>>8620255
>nothing to do with acid-base chemistry
What part of this are you not getting?

>>8617743
lose weight, fatty

>>8620947
I think I'm not getting the part that stops someone being able to answer the question:
>"If DNA has bases, then where are its acids?"
I mean, if someone asked me "If protons and electrons have different masses, then why do they have the same charge?", I wouldn't say "Mass isn't related to charge. What part of this are you not getting?".

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>>8617611
>if hot air goes upwards, why is cold kilometers above the ground?

>>8620261
he's right? you can't do exponents in your head unless you've memorized a table of them.

>>8621218
>he cant do 2*2*2*2*2 in his head

>how strong is the gravity of an atom
in reference to electron orbits, professor didn't answer this, not sure whether it was a joke or not

>>8621266
well this is depends on your element you are using

And then easily do this Fg=GmM/r2.

A fellow student always asks questions in lectures, which are mostly not so clever, but sometimes they turn out to be good.
Which means some things the prof told turn out to be false/ hadn't been explained or he can't even give an answer himself.

>>8617801
this is hardly an american thing

>>8618163
It was a vihart video

>what's the point of this shit

qm class

really makes me ponder

In a second year math class in Europe
>"What is that open box?"
He was referring to pi, which had been used extensively throughout the class

>>8617611
In my fifth year uni I heard questions people in first semester dont ask.
All these people now have better jobs than me.

do we HAVE to know the proof that the square root of 2 is irrational?

pretty sure she failed the exam

>>8621201
>Mass isn't related to charge

That's what 4-fundamental-force -lunatic crack pot tinfoil hats "flat-earthers" actually believe.

t. Theory of everything - master race

>>8621333
In third math class, have |N(x)|=|xx*| on the board
>"What does those bars represent? We haven't done that before"
Note complex analysis and abstract algebra was a prereq for this course

>>8621346
>in third swedish class, have 'förvaret' written on the board
>"What does 'förvaret' mean? We haven't done that before."
>Note 'Life in Sweden' and 'How to be homosexual' was a prereq for this course

>>8618163
>an alternative pi that is circumference divided by diameter instead of radius called tau
you got the definitions the other way around, pi is d and tau is r

>>8621361
Meant third year

Anyways
>In library
>Day before the exam of our *third* quantum mechanics course, and linear algebra prereqs
>Guy next to me asks me
>"What is an eigenvalue?"

>>8621374
Not a useful comment. 0/1 points. Incorrect. Wrong. Bad.

>>8621381
im sorry

>>8621218
exponents of e or some other weird fraction, sure

but power series of single-digit integers? that's fucking grade school times tables shit

>>8621380
>In atelier
>Day before the exhibition of our *third* art symposium, and expressionistic theater
>Guy next to me asks me
>"Do you think Salieri was jealous of Mozart?

>>8621393
>In gym
>Day before powerlifting meet
>We have competed at least thrice
>"How do you squat?"
Note that the prereqs were SS+GOMAD

>>8621403
HAHAHAHA

>>8621403
>In tower
>Father asks what do I have to do
>He's asked /pol/ a few times
>Inauguration is tomorrow
Take into account that prerequisites for the job was to be a government official

>be 16-ish
>learning about differential calculus
>sudden epipahny
"Do you mean everytime we differentiate a function it almost loose a degree ?"
>ohgodwhy.jpeg
>not my proudest moment
> 2 friends made fun of me the whole semester
"careful anon you'll almost loose [the following term is trivial and will be let to the reader as an exercise]"
>joke on them i'm soon to be graduate in EE when they both failed uni

>inb4 lol engi can't into math

>>8621549
To be fair, differentiation usually is understood as making a function less 'smooth'

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> First year linear algebra exam
> After the exam I hear one girl and a friend of her talking about one of the questions
> "Find the dimension of the following sets", which a bunch of linearly dependents vectors in each of them
> 2nd girl asks the 1st how did she fare
> "Duh you just had to count the vectors dumbass"
>mfw

>>8618253
[math]\textbf{A}(\textbf{y})\textbf{y}_x[/math] lmao

>General relativity lecture
>About Einstein Field Equations
>Old lady in class
>"What's the difference between big g and little g"

For those who don't know. Little g is the metric tensor which defines the dot product between two vectors. Big g is Einstein tensor which is defined as a giant partial differential equation of little g.