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What fresh Hell is this?
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i hated math and was dumb at it....farmer math for me where numbers make sense
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Nope. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. Straight from the lips of Justin Wilson.
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I can figure the area of a circle; I whipped the volume of an ice cream cone on daughter's homework, the formula was with the problem.
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I can figure the area of a circle; I whipped the volume of an ice cream cone on daughter's homework, the formula was with the problem.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Seriously, when do you use either/ Cosine multiplied by the distance to target provides the horizontal distance to your target that's at a different elevation than you are so you can determine the bullet drop for a long shot. Some rangefinders do the math for you, but it's still useful knowledge.
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Seriously, when do you use either/ Used Trig all the time when fitting pipe in the factory. You need to run a 8 inch diameter line across 42 feet horizontal distance. But you also have 12 feet vertical offset. How long do you make the transitional piece And what are the angles of the elbows to connect it? A squared plus B squared equals C squared will get you the answer to the first question. But you're gonna need trig to answer the second. Same. As an electrician pulling wire is easy but figuring out runs and bends of conduit so that it looks “workman like” can be a challenge. Phone aps help but you still need to understand the concept and what to plug in.
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Just words for ratios of the sides of a right triangle.
Sine is the opposite/ hypotenuse
Cosine is the adjacent/ hypotenuse
Tangent is the opposite/ adjacent
These are the basics of Trigonometry which is used heavily in surveying and engineering.
We will leave it there. What you dont know wont hurt you. Or give you a headache.
Where's Mathman? Did you giys run him off? He would be all over this.
God Bless America
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Made sense at one time, but lack of use has made much advanced math go into hiding, somewhere in my skull.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I may have learned more on this site, then six weeks in school.
I still don't think the teacher understood it.
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Sine, and cosine? Anybody understand it? Sounds like trigonometry to me. Yeah, different math class........chances for a hot lady prof greatly diminished....
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I was one of the first to speak out against math.
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Went through multivariable calculus. Came easy for me, nothing too terrible.
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I remember solving trinomial equations in High School. I have no memory of how we solved them, but I know we did. I got an A in the class.
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Sine, and cosine? Anybody understand it? Sounds like trigonometry to me. Lots of people understand the trigonometry version of sine and cosine. It's the advanced algebra sine and cosine that has everyone baffled.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I made straight As in both units (Years) of high school algebra
Had a great teacher. Which was rare for our school system.
Hit it off with college trig professor too. Older lady, farm type gal. Actually liked her enough that I brought her a 1/2 bushel of blue lakes that I grew one afternoon. Her husband was also one of our high school teachers back across other side of the county. You couldn’t be no dunce though, she would write and work problems with her right hand and erase with her left hand. Better get it the first time or you were shît outta luck. Big on Law of sines, cosines, tangents, trigonometric functions and equations, lots application math. She knew many of us Geoscience and Spatial Analysis people needed those for Quant and Stats, Hydrology and Hydrogeology.
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Trig functions explained scores a lot of poontang wherever there's a ladies night taking place.....
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I used to be pretty fair with trig but it's been a loooong time since I've used it. I took 3 semesters of calculus in college and came out with no clue at all as to what it was for. They taught theory, not practical application. Some years later, I considered going back and studying engineering. I knew I'd need to brush up on the calc. A friend who taught at the local college gave me a business calculus book that a book salesman had given him as a sample. It was full of practical application. The light switch turned on. So THAT was what it was for. Why didn't they teach it that way before?
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Sine, and cosine? Anybody understand it? they are used in ballistics apps.
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