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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well its day 0 now since you technically used them in this meme even if it was only the words

[–] flambonkscious 20 points 2 years ago
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah you are. You can’t use electricity without it.

[–] EmoDuck 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is a DC only household

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shut up Thomas, Nikola won!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

TIL I'm an HTML developer because I'm surfing on the internet

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

The meme said they didn’t use it not that they didn’t apply it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

tan I go to bed

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Basic trigonometry is super useful and not that hard to understand or memorize.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You may have used them indirectly in the compression of your image

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if you were a more interesting person you could make up a use for them

[–] slackassassin 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The only function is sine, the rest are just remixes and ratios

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Do I like math? Yes

Do I understand a tiny bit of it? Absolutely not

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Me, whose going to start studying EE: 😭

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

HAHAHAHA GOOD LUCK! I'm in my final year of my EE study and I cannot wait to escape this mental asylum

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Electrical Engineers are the psychos for using j instead of i. Absolutely bonkers.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I use it all the time. I'm an engineer though so it doesn't really counteract what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

[TRIGONOMETRY WARNING]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Me working on graphics and audio programming all day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I see you have never built a chicken coop.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Oh I am sinning like a motherfucker

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, pretty much every object in the room that had to be manufactured with any precision uses trig.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Weird, I use them almost every day doing procedural animation and modeling.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

did you know 1209 is a prime number? or maybe not, I'm just a cat :3

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL cats are really bad at math.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

That is just cause you are unemployed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Your phone relies on trigonometry.

[–] HootinNHollerin 11 points 2 years ago

Use them all the time as a mechanical engineer

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