If it makes it easier then heck yea cause I'm taking Trig this semester. The first chapter are like what ever...... then the BS starts.
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If it makes it easier then heck yea cause I'm taking Trig this semester. The first chapter are like what ever...... then the BS starts.
Personally, I think that this is great. I'm perfectly fine with the current system of sine, cosine, and tangent, but I think that it's great news that even a few millenia after the creation of trig, it is still being redefined and refined.
COHCAHTOA is for retarded fags. All you need to remember is fucking TOA.Quote:
Originally Posted by burky
Bitches.
Being able to express geometry with rational numbers instead of trig functions has huge implications for computers, since it eliminates the need for trig look-up tables or trig algorithms.
Sure, as long as you can remember that that tan=sin/cos.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
If you can't remember tan=sin/cos, that long mind trick BS isn't going to help you. You need tan = sin/cos to work many trig and calc problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
SOHCAHTOA is useful for people like carpenters, who may occasionally need basic trig, but don't have any use for calculus.
You're taking trig in college? UNC is even worse than I thought. I thought even the slow kids took trig as a junior in high school.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zerohero
You guy's realise that trig functions are no more complicated than circles right? Right? Are circles confusing?
I'm going to read this before I comment further.
You can't. Irrationals come into the picture as soon as you want to study something as simple as a square. Trancendentals enter the picture as soon as you want to study a circle.Quote:
Being able to express geometry with rational numbers instead of trig functions has huge implications for computers, since it eliminates the need for trig look-up tables or trig algorithms.
The trig functions are merely the ratios of two sides of a triangle. Really, they aren't that hard folks.
I think it's Geometry jr. year. Slow kids don't get up to Trig.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi