Well its day 0 now since you technically used them in this meme even if it was only the words
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Yeah you are. You can’t use electricity without it.
TIL I'm an HTML developer because I'm surfing on the internet
The meme said they didn’t use it not that they didn’t apply it.
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Nah, I hired an electrician to handle all that for me. Now if I want electricity all I have to do is stick a plug in a socket, or flip a switch. It's way more convenient.
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Basic trigonometry is super useful and not that hard to understand or memorize.
It's because trigonometry is used to teach people geometry and nothing in real life application. You want basic trigonometry in real life we should use physics as a basis for why trigonometry is useful in real life. You can't expect theory to be used in practicality when nobody has any experience.
I don't understand, out of all of the things that we teach students in schools, out of all of the things that people don't demand justification for learning, why Maths gets all of the flak. It's the foundation on which the universe exists. If people don't understand that they're not just learning trigonometry "just cuz" then they probably don't have much of a career in STEM planned for themselves. Which is fine, but western society's blindspot for STEM is 100% attributed to the intentional undermining and dumbing-down of the education system.
We regularly don't give students justification for why they learn grammar, biology, chemistry, physics, visual art, and music. But as soon as you show someone a standard polynomial, they lose their fucking minds.
For me, my "education" with math was "when you see this: 5/73¥π7^t then you use 5-8(25&6)_9gh8/6 not 5&6(9!4_89) ok memorize it for the test.
Oh you want to know why or what it does or what it even is? No that's college work. You're in highschool, memorize it because reasons.
Yeah... That's not how my brain works no matter how badly I wish I did. I need to UNDERSTAND not memorize! I can't memorize seemingly arbitrary bullshit that has no explained meaning. My brain instantly tosses it as irrelevant information.
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I dunno, I see people complain about "why do we have to read books that are hundreds of years old?" too pretty frequently. Some people are just hostile to education. Honestly, cost aside, I'm a little disappointed in the number of people who complain about college as if the only thing you get out of college is a piece of paper.
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Trig is honestly the math I've used the most since finishing school. But to be fair, that is mostly because it's useful as hell when doing game development as a hobby.
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if you were a more interesting person you could make up a use for them
Best take right here. Trig shows up a lot when you actually do stuff. Woodworking, programming, physics, art, music, philosophy. Math shit is universal human language.
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I like math :) Its mysterious and fascinating and constantly surprising, like seeing the source code of the universe. Closest shit we have to actual magic.
Do I like math? Yes
Do I understand a tiny bit of it? Absolutely not
Me, whose going to start studying EE: 😭
HAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK! I'm in my final year of my EE study and I cannot wait to escape this mental asylum
Electrical Engineers are the psychos for using j instead of i. Absolutely bonkers.
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I use it all the time. I'm an engineer though so it doesn't really counteract what you're saying.
[TRIGONOMETRY WARNING]
One day, while working on a website, I was wondering how to calculate a specific point in a graph. After googling, the answer was by using sine and cosine. Mind blew away, I had always thought I'd never use them.
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Trigonometry is extremely useful when constructing things. Need to know the length of wood needed to go from corner to corner. That's trig my friend.
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Me working on graphics and audio programming all day.
Oh I am sinning like a motherfucker
Meanwhile, pretty much every object in the room that had to be manufactured with any precision uses trig.
Weird, I use them almost every day doing procedural animation and modeling.
I use trig every few years when buying a tv. Tv specs always list diagonal but rarely horizontal and vertical which is needed for knowing how a TV will fit in a space.
I'm trying to figure out how you need trig for that. Just the Pythagorean theorem and ratios seem sufficient to me.
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That is just cause you are unemployed.
did you know 1209 is a prime number? or maybe not, I'm just a cat :3
1209 is 3 times 13 times 31, and cats are better at typing than they are at math.
In base 10, the sum of the digits of any number that is divisible by 3 is also divisible by 3, so 1+2+0+9=12, implies 1209 is divisible by 3.
Likewise, 1001 is divisible by 13, so if you split a number in base 10 every 3 digits, and subtract/add alternating sets of numbers, if the result is divisible by 13, the original number is, too. 209-1 is 208, which is obviously divisible by 13, so 1209 is, too.
Divisibility by 31 in base 10 is harder to check, but 999998 is divisible by 31, as is 999999999999999, so you can just split the number every 15 digits, and add those together, and if the sum is divisible by 31... I'm talking about math to a cat.
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Your phone relies on trigonometry.
Use them all the time as a mechanical engineer
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