I think I must have bad karma as well as The Smartest Guy I Know. You see, TSGIK's worst nightmare in high school was English with the crazy mountain lady. Mine was calculus with 4 teachers before Christmas. He is having to relive his English nightmare, and I am having to relive my calculus one. No, I don't have a new teacher. This one is sadistic enough. You see, he gave us this problem. The concept was easy. Take a polynomial, sub in (u+a) for x, and multiply. Simple. The problem he gave us was x^14-7x^12+8x^7+3x^5+x^2-4x+12 at a=14. He gave this to us on Friday when he knew we couldn't get to a computer lab and even mentioned that. He laughed when he wrote it on the board. He told us he knew we couldn't get to the computer lab, but he wasn't sure if he was going to extend the due time until 4 pm instead of 9:30 am. He is a sick Nazi math bastard. The concept is simple, the problem is just him exercising power. I have an advantage, my sister, most of her friends, and half of mine are some sort of engineering majors with computers with programs that will do this. I asked TSGIK if he could use his to do this. He said yes. He is my best friend.
*Note: for those of you interested, the answer is:
u^14+ 196u^13+ 17829u^12+ 997640u^11+ 38363864u^10+ 1072497888u^9+ 22478085168u^8+ 358797449480u^7+ 4383093497104u^6+ 40779003228328u^5+ 284430301320466u^4+ 1442223720472696u^3+ 5025510465989777u^2+ 10771843773536520u+ 10715150283852600.
**Blogger Spell Checker doesn't recognize large numbers and thinks they are misspelled.
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