Did you hear what you said? That Trig is not an exact science. This is the first step to understanding that trig is not fit for formal presentations. |
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I've been experimenting with this idea for a while now, because it's always confused me that there's no way to calculate stuff with trigonometry without either taking measurements in some way, or by using Pi to work out the value (which itself is calculated through measurements in some way). |
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Did you hear what you said? That Trig is not an exact science. This is the first step to understanding that trig is not fit for formal presentations. |
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Last edited by Philosopher8659; 10-08-2010 at 07:20 PM.
Hm well, what you're kind of doing is, by assuming that you can split the angles up into parts proportional to the opposite side lengths, as in, a linear relationship... you're kind of just modelling the opposite edges as a circle. |
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I know that the 36.9 and other stuff were just rounded, but the example could easily have been the 1, 2, sqrt(3) triangle, with exact angles 30 and 60. |
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Yes, they are actually just the first three terms of the respective series. |
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You did not hear me at all. I said elliptical function, not linear. You cannot even imagine the figure. You learn geometry the same way you learn anything, learning to say what you see. |
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Last edited by Philosopher8659; 10-09-2010 at 05:20 PM.
I did hear you but I wasn't talking to you, I was addressing the question posed by the original poster. |
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You have got to be joking. |
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No, sorry. |
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It seems my greatest flaw is overestimating other's conceptual abiity. Probably because I don't understand it. |
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I... don't think accountants are in the habit of using geometry. |
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Theoretical Disaster pt. 2? |
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I stomp on your ideas.
Well, I suppose that A = A is old news, and somehow needs to be modernized. However, even Aristotle, as lame as he was, understood that logic, all logic is binary. You only have 2 choices from the very foundation of all logics, assertion and denial. |
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Thanks Xei, the series stuff has helped a lot. |
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You should check out the 'Theoretical Disaster' thread, that one was epic. |
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Can people stop the baloney? |
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Ya I already said that, this thread is kinda old and settled. |
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