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Jimmy Snyder
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I have a copy of the book Thomas' Calculus Early Trancendentals Media Upgrade 11th edition. I have found a couple of errata. While neither of them is important, I found them entertaining.
On page 179 at the bottom right hand corner there is what purports to be a multiflash photograph of falling balls. This cannot be a photograph but perhaps is an artist's rendition. Near the top of the figure, the later images of the falling balls appear beneath the earlier ones.
On page 242 in the middle of the page it says "the linearization gives 2 as the approximation for [tex]\sqrt{3}[/tex], which is not even accurate to one decimal place." I assume the author means that since the first digit of the square root is 1, 2 is off even in this place. However, it is necessary to round off the square root before making the comparison. Otherwise we would say that 2 is a terrible approximation to 1.9999999999999, it is not even accurate to one decimal place.
On page 179 at the bottom right hand corner there is what purports to be a multiflash photograph of falling balls. This cannot be a photograph but perhaps is an artist's rendition. Near the top of the figure, the later images of the falling balls appear beneath the earlier ones.
On page 242 in the middle of the page it says "the linearization gives 2 as the approximation for [tex]\sqrt{3}[/tex], which is not even accurate to one decimal place." I assume the author means that since the first digit of the square root is 1, 2 is off even in this place. However, it is necessary to round off the square root before making the comparison. Otherwise we would say that 2 is a terrible approximation to 1.9999999999999, it is not even accurate to one decimal place.