That's exactly how it was presented to me first day in college.
>when you're designing a nuclear plant, you can't afford to make mistakes on signs like some people do. There is no bad grade, there is dead people.
Stop making mistakes. Your points in an exam should evaluate how far and fast you can think, not how many mistakes you made.
I knew you were an engineer. Explains why you think math is about solving integrals really fast.
It's not, that's the point.
The faster you can do basic things, the more time you can spend on doing actual thinking.
I knew you were retarded.
There are situations when the +C is very important (for example, solving an ODE with an initial condition), but i've always thought it to be very pedantic to insist on it for questions that just ask you to evaluate an indefinite integral. If I were grading a question like that, I probably wouldn't have taken off more than 10% of the value of the problem.
>not being in a computer science career
thats how it works
>major in pure math
>never add + C
I just say it can be proven for C = 0 without loss of generality.
I think you need to differentiate between functions and function families
Cant say if manipulating the body of function is a good way of doing it though
The speed of light is not a trivial variable. Integrals are part of a spectrum.
Since c lies in the set of reals, forgetting to put it means that your answer has a null measure over the set of solutions, so it is pretty normal to give it a null score.
Although you could take the answer differently , and compute the Levenshtein similarity between the normalized form of your answer and the closest expression of the correct answer.
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