The smarter kids in your class probably do use them.
Jokes on you, I’m in the bourgeois class and let kids from the working class and professional mangerial class do that kind of homework for me
He said smarter, not wealthier. I’m getting the guillotine.
Nah. I was labeled a dumb kid in high school because I had to work 40 hours a week. I went back to college as an adult and now have a masters in mech Eng.
Went to my high school reunion and the smart kids were largely abject failures. They never really struggled until college, then mostly failed out. I felt bad for them, but not too bad since most of them bullied me.
But you use things that use them.
like any device that uses graphics
But you do use them everyday, because the Internet would not work without them.
Doesn’t it? Have we ever tried to rid humanity of this triangle of evil? Un-tan the internet I say! Grab your pitchforks and cos this sin-er to hell!
Jokes on you, basic arm and leg mechanics involves trig
Sin, Cos and Tan were gifted to us by the gods, and it’s solely your fault, if you don’t use them daily in your freetime.
I use them every day. Making science is rad as fuck.
As opposed to degree as fuck.
Almost made me do a π
I see what you did there.
The non-programmer folks upvote this post. I mean, not that I use it for every app, but I have used it in recent memory. SOH-CAH-TOA, bitches!
Back in my day we had to use sentences to remember it
Sill Old Harry Caught A Herring Trawling Off America
Firmly lodged in place forever
Hey, I’m not a programmer, as a real engineer half of my education was in some way related to trig
Alright, alright, you can sit with us cool nerds. 🤓 But on Wednesdays we wear pink fanny packs.
Sad take.
Every day, I use them ever damn day.
For determining the right angle to fuck the sharks from?
I do almost everyday as a mechanical engineer. I even do the common angles in my head, which came in handy several times in situations where I’m sailing and something breaks underway etc
There is at least one smbc for everything
Never really understood people who say they don’t use algebra. I use it very regularly.
Programmer for 25 years. Only time I have ever used math more complicated than simple multiply/divide was… actually never.
That one time when I copy/pasted a formula for linear interpolation, was still just multiplication and division. And I still have no idea how it works.
I’ve even done OpenGL and graphics programming and still haven’t needed any algebra/trig/etc, although I don’t do complex 3D rendering or physics or anything like that.
I wish I knew how to do cool programming stuff like draw circles and waves and stuff though, but I’ve never seen a tutorial that didn’t go WAY over my head immediately.
Drawing a circle is actually pretty simple! Say we want to draw one with:
- radius r=5
- center C=(0,0)
- 1000 points
The logic would be:
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { // full circle is made up of 2 * PI angles -> calculate current loop angle const angle = (2 * Math.PI) * (i / 1000) const x = r * Math.cos(angle) const y = r * Math.sin(angle) drawPixel(x, y) }The circle starts being drawn at (5, 0). As y approaches -5, x gets smaller until it hits 0. Then x approaches -5 and y approaches 0, and so on.
I often go on a TANgent when I’m thinking or talking about something. Does that count?
Yeah, cos it’s a sin to not use trigonometry.
Niiiiiiccccce ones guys
I still do occasionally. I don’t study anything stem related. If you really want to use it you can think of thinks and it’s nice to have been thought to be comfortable with numbers and functions and stuff.
I actually really enjoyed trig class.
I hated all math classes before it, but I had a great teacher and something about the real-life usefulness (triangulation, navigation, etc) of trig clicked for me and I enjoyed it and made an A.
I fucking failed the shit out of statistics, and hilariously that’s the most related to my real life job, where I’m dealing with gigantic data sets daily looking for outliers/trends.
Stats is the most unintuitive and unpleasant part of math. Trig is a fun problem that nests perfectly into physics
Stats by hand is worse than diff EQ. You are right, it’s so unintuitive. I just let R-Studio decide.
Ratio
That’s a lot of circles and curves on your desk bro.
