I took a great class for my first math credit in college. Instead of some poorly taught college algebra class where a bunch of math GTA's tried to force everyone into thinking like math majors, the university I went to introduced a class that was algebra for non-math majors, called Elementary Mathematical Modeling. (This was also because it was a big nursing school, and the nursing students were failing math, which made them do something to keep turning out nurses) And since I was blind the head of the math department assigned me my own GTA. I did all my work in Excel for both that and my statistics class, just him and me in a room in the disability support center. And I learned all kinds of things. Think about it, math works on all levels. The goal is to get to 1 for square roots and exponents, so if something is raised to the power of 2 then to get it to the power of 1 you need to multiply it by .5. And yes, .33333333 etc is a cube root and .25 is a forth power root. Excel will also calculate things using both Pi and E and handle statistical functions. And I built a spreadsheet that handles the quadratic formula, too.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave > Carlson via Jfw > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:26 PM > To: The Jaws for Windows support list. > Subject: Re: SQRT in Microsoft XL 2010 > > Nicole, > > Never knew that about ^.5. Amazing what a storehouse of knowledge we > have -- if we could only put it all together in one brain. > > Dave Carlson > Future Oregonian, pioneer, landlord, Farfar, musician, and woodworker > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nicole Massey via Jfw" <[email protected]> > To: "'The Jaws for Windows support list.'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 07:02 PM > Subject: RE: SQRT in Microsoft XL 2010 > > > ^.5 will do it much easier than trying to use another command, as > elevating > a number to the .5 power is the same thing. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jfw [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andre > > Jarreau via Jfw > > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 8:58 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: SQRT in Microsoft XL 2010 > > > > Working in XL I tried to take the square root of a number in cell C3. > > I used "=SQRT(C3)" but it did not work. I think the equation is > right > > but not sure. Anybody know? > > Thanks > > Thanks > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: <http://lists.the-jdh.com/pipermail/jfw_lists.the- > > jdh.com/attachments/20140603/cabeeb58/attachment.html> > > _______________________________________________ > > Jfw mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
