18 May
2013
18 May
'13
1:53 a.m.
Minus the 3rd derivative of a bell curve: In[234]:= D[-E^-t^2, {t, 3}] Out[234]= -12 E^-t^2 t + 8 E^-t^2 t^3 In[235]:= Plot[%, {t, -3, 3}] looks remarkably like the water depth variation along the Tohoku coast during the 11-3-11 tsunami: Drawback, huge flood, huge backwash+drawback, lesser flood. Coincidence? I can supply YouTube URLs. --rwg Challenge: Combine %234 and %235 into a single "command". Macsyma has a similar problem.