----------------------------------- Mark_Tran Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:57 am I need help with a Math related question Please Help Me ----------------------------------- What is the derivitive of this? 4X^2 + 6X + 4 and as a side note, does anybody know what the most common first and last names in the world are? If you can give me an answer to either of the questions above, i will be eternally grateful to you. ----------------------------------- cool dude Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:34 am ----------------------------------- james is the most common male name and smith is the most common last name. Mary is the most common female name james is on average the most common name for both males and females. it is the number one common name for males and the number 875 common name for females so on average its the most common name out of both males and females if u want to see second, third, etc. most common names fo to this website http://www.namestatistics.com/ ----------------------------------- Mazer Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:38 am ----------------------------------- Most common names in the world? ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:44 am ----------------------------------- 8x+6 That is a realy easy one with power law.... ----------------------------------- md Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:45 am ----------------------------------- Ah derivatives, so simple I can do them sleeping: 8x + 6. Though I really don't see why you are asking that here... seeing as it is a really simple equation. BTW: Huge avatars are bad; please make them smaller. ----------------------------------- chrispminis Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:22 pm ----------------------------------- On the subject of the names, the site is only for the U.S. of A. Couldn't have been the world since... I'm chinese... and I know a LOT of other chinese people who share last names at least. First names are usually pretty unique. ----------------------------------- brenn Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:29 pm ----------------------------------- Except in Chinese, the "last" name comes first and the "first" name comes later! XD ----------------------------------- Blade Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:58 am ----------------------------------- Except in Chinese, the "last" name comes first and the "first" name comes later! XD isn't that true with all oriental languages? ----------------------------------- chrispminis Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:21 pm ----------------------------------- Lol, brenn, t'is true. But.. for all practical purposes the chinese "first" name is the equivalent to the last name, in that it is the family name and is the one that gets carried on. That's why i referred to it as the last name. Usually the name is divided into 2 parts. The family name then the identifying name that usually means something nice. For example mine means Always Prosperous :) ----------------------------------- brenn Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:33 pm ----------------------------------- Lol, brenn, t'is true. But.. for all practical purposes the chinese "first" name is the equivalent to the last name, in that it is the family name and is the one that gets carried on. That's why i referred to it as the last name. Usually the name is divided into 2 parts. The family name then the identifying name that usually means something nice. For example mine means Always Prosperous :) Wing... Yeung? Completely unsure about the last one. I don't think mine has a pretty meaning: 善如 isn't that true with all oriental languages? Perhaps, but I didn't want to claim that when I'm not familiar with all of the oriental languages. ----------------------------------- chrispminis Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:49 pm ----------------------------------- Wait... whoa... you're asian (chinese? mandarin?)? And anyways on name. The first character is your family name obviously. The second one im not sure if its one character or two. And im not sure if thats sposed to be a box or if it didnt load for me. Anyways that one character, the second, means female, or indicates feminine, it can be combined to form a lot of other different words, so im not sure if the other character is part of it or not. ----------------------------------- Andy Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:39 am ----------------------------------- lmao, it's obviously one, if it was two that'd be a pretty stupid name