The Lust for Linearity
One of the seven deadly sines: the lust for linearity, a student longing to write sin(2x) = 2 sin x.
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"the LUST for LINEARITY" [Board: sin(2x) = 2 sin x] "I can do this, right? Right?!" "Oh, I want to do it so bad…"
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