Cotangent Memes

Patrick Star in a lab coat perfectly embodies the calculus student's eternal nightmare. The derivative of cotangent is -cosecant squared, but who can remember that when you're staring at your exam paper like it's written in hieroglyphics? Instead, you're frantically writing cos(x)/sin(x), then applying the quotient rule while your brain melts into mathematical pudding. Twenty-seven steps and three pages later, you arrive at the answer that could've been yours in five seconds if you'd just memorized the damn formula. The true universal constant isn't Planck's—it's the number of times we'll all rediscover basic derivatives the hard way.