Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Take Me To L'Hopital

This week was our second midterm, and I felt like it went pretty well.  I only wish I had more time to write it!  The questions were appropriately challenging, and I felt like they were a twist on our second assignment.  I will look forward to getting the solution to it, because there were a few times when I had an idea of where to go but couldn't exactly figure out how.

After the test, we moved on to proofs related to Big Oh notation.  I quickly realized that this was the hinge between the mathematical proofs and the computer science.  We took a look at some examples and techniques to prove whether a polynomial function was in Big Oh.  With enough practice, it seemed like it will be a straightforward procedure.  Then we moves to logarithmic functions and learned about L'Hopital's rule.  I found it interesting but felt a bit lost yet again.  I am already looking forward to assignment 3, because they've been the most helpful way to learn everyhing so far.  I like how this is all tying back to computer science though, and I am eager to see where this all goes.

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