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Post #225,553 by Silverlock 9/19/05 9:54:34 PM Reply	So this isn't bogus? I'm not enough of a math geek to understand on a cursory view if this is real or a con job. ----------------------------------------- George W. Bush and his PNAC handlers sent the US into Iraq with lies. I find myself rethinking my opposition to the death penalty. --Donald Dean Richards Jr.
Post #225,559 by ben_tilly 9/20/05 12:17:47 AM Reply	Somewhat Often you want to avoid explicit trig calculations. They are complex, slow, and introduce rounding errors. So having a way to think about trig that avoids them is useful. But push come to shove, there is inherent complexity that you aren't going to get around. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #225,582 by drewk 9/20/05 9:31:36 AM Reply	Seems to me ... Trig is based on measurements of the triangle itself: what is the length of each side, what are the angles, etc. This method seems to enable doing formulas directly on the coordinates. I could be mis-reading -- okay, I didn't read the whole thing -- but that's what it looked like. === Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link\|http://DocHope.com\|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats]. [link\|http://DocHope.com\|http://DocHope.com]

How would you like to trigonometry without sin/cos/tan? - (Silverlock) - (24) - Sept. 18, 2005, 09:58:13 AM EDT

That's just wrong. -NT - (bionerd) - (11) - Sept. 18, 2005, 10:31:45 AM EDT

Agreed if does away with Euclid. - (a6l6e6x) - (10) - Sept. 18, 2005, 01:38:03 PM EDT

This is a good thing? - (ben_tilly) - (9) - Sept. 18, 2005, 10:57:41 PM EDT

I also learnt complex numbers via an unconventional route. - (static) - Sept. 18, 2005, 11:29:23 PM EDT

Re: think of proofs as straightforward. - (mmoffitt) - (6) - Sept. 19, 2005, 01:22:23 PM EDT

I'll have to disagree with you on that - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Sept. 19, 2005, 06:35:17 PM EDT

Nit. - (mmoffitt) - (4) - Sept. 20, 2005, 11:18:42 AM EDT

Nit denied - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 20, 2005, 07:18:19 PM EDT

What's your point? - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Sept. 21, 2005, 12:39:10 PM EDT

My point is that... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 21, 2005, 02:49:18 PM EDT

Ah. Dartmouth. - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 21, 2005, 03:26:10 PM EDT

It was for me. I ate 'em up. - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 19, 2005, 01:59:58 PM EDT

What the hell is spread in mathematics? -NT - (warmachine) - (1) - Sept. 18, 2005, 10:59:49 AM EDT

the value between the over and under, what, you dont bet? -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 18, 2005, 11:25:45 AM EDT

Fundamental blindness - - (Ashton) - Sept. 18, 2005, 07:12:46 PM EDT

IOW: "Let's dumb down Math for the Masses" - (imqwerky) - Sept. 18, 2005, 09:48:06 PM EDT

Choose which operations are difficult - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Sept. 18, 2005, 11:02:59 PM EDT

I'd have thought most folks can grok Pythagoras, at least - - (Ashton) - (4) - Sept. 19, 2005, 04:48:59 AM EDT

Conceptually the problem is easy - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 19, 2005, 06:23:22 PM EDT

So this isn't bogus? - (Silverlock) - (2) - Sept. 19, 2005, 09:54:34 PM EDT

Somewhat - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 20, 2005, 12:17:47 AM EDT

Seems to me ... - (drewk) - Sept. 20, 2005, 09:31:36 AM EDT

Just another coordinate system - (tuberculosis) - Sept. 18, 2005, 11:27:05 PM EDT

Maths is not singular - (ChrisR) - Sept. 19, 2005, 12:43:51 PM EDT

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