{"id":23,"date":"2015-04-13T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/?p=23"},"modified":"2015-04-13T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T15:18:08","slug":"limits-and-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/2015\/04\/13\/limits-and-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits and Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my calculus students to read this xkcd strip from <a title=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/872\/\" href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/872\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/xkcd.com\/872\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Goldilocks' discovery of Newton's method for approximation required surprisingly few changes.\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/fairy_tales.png\" alt=\"Fairy Tales\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I asked them:<\/p>\n<p>a) What is $\\lim_{x\\rightarrow \\infty} (x )$?<br \/>\nb) Explain what might have been weird about the $\\lim_{x\\rightarrow \\infty} (x )$ little pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked my calculus students to read this xkcd strip from http:\/\/xkcd.com\/872\/ Then I asked them: a) What is $\\lim_{x\\rightarrow \\infty} (x )$? b) Explain what might have been weird about the $\\lim_{x\\rightarrow \\infty} (x )$ little pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12258],"tags":[12251,12249,12250,12262,12248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/archeyde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}