RoyF wrote:
The derivative 28 cos(7x- pi/2) @ x-0 = 28 cos( -pi/2), which is 28 cos(-90 degrees) = 0.
It's all French to me. Or Italian. or Cyrillic. Or some other language I don't understand. (Fortran? Java?) I studied C for a while, but quickly came to the conclusion that I just didn't have the mind for it.
That all (needlessly) said...
I ran a forum website for a decade, and it was a constant fight to keep the spammers and scammers at bay. Problem is, it's a battle of "Whack-a-mole". Just when you think you are ahead of the game, they pop up elsewhere. Fortunately I turned it over to a new owner/admin a few years back - I was exhausted. The new admin has done an admirable job with the site.
It's just a fact of life these days. We are getting to the point where we are fairly "secure" in our workplace, but we can't get much done because we are dealing with all the new & constantly changing security (bleep). Yet, if we didn't deal with it, we'd be overrun & stolen blind by the the baddies.