Finding the y-intercept

I added a link tracker to my blog. This device tells me that I am getting hits by people wanting to know about the y-intercept. Specifically, they are interested in knowing how to find the y-intercept. Wanting to make the world a happy place, I am writing up this page to explain the y-intercept and why I chose to use it as my pseudonym in forums.

The y-intercept is simply the point where a line or curve crosses the y-axis. You can find the y-intercept of the function f(x) simply by using 0 for x. In the line notation y = mx + c. The variable c is the y-intercept. If x equals zero, then y = m0 + c or y = c.

For most functions, finding the y-intercept, if it exists, is easy. You just plug 0 into the equation. The answer is the y-intercept. Finding the x-intercept gets difficult.

Did this answer your question? If not, could you go to my forum page and ask the question in greater detail?

Why the y-intercept?

So, why did I register the domain y-intercept.com and use this as the name for my blog?

Well, the y-intercept is value of an equation at zero. In a sense, it is a starting point. It is the anchor point for a line. My metaphor was that I start at the y-intercept and venture forth.

So, what do you plan to do with y-intercept?

When Themestream collapsed, I thought of using the domain to make a literary site...a wiki for writers. The ad revenues did not add up; so, I ditched that losing idea. My current thoughts are to create a thing called an academic blog. An academic blog would let people record all the books they read. It would then then allow the end use to create a biblography for reports and what not. Again...no money no funny. The site currently is like an academic blog, but I am the only user.

Is there more to the y-intercept?

Bookmark this page. Yes, there is something extremely interesting about the y-intercept. If ever I can break this melancholia and financial block, I finish this page and tell you something extremely interesting about the subject. As for now, you find the y-intercept of a function by replacing x with zero.

For now, I am trying to fix the financial thing by making community directories. It's not working. But never surrender.