Thursday, November 21, 2013

16.1, due december 2

i got a little lost in the math of this section. it probably doesn’t help that i’m not very comfortable with ellipses. but i was also a little confused as to how this will be useful in cryptography. with other sections that are all about math, i’ve been able to see how the math in those sections might be used for encrypting messages. but i have no idea with this stuff. it will be interesting to see how it relates.

i thought it was really interesting that we use infinity as a value. most of the time, i just ignore it or avoid it because it is so big and you can’t really do anything with it. i was surprised to see how often that point is referred to and used. that will take some getting used to, honestly. but the context that it will be used makes perfect sense. i was a little surprised that it is even defined or placed on the axes.

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