this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

No such luck as a physics prof :/

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Having coded a 3D engine: sin and cos are cool. Tan can fuck right off. Atan doubly so.

And radians are the devil's work.

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[–] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SOH-CAH-TOA , mothafucka'!

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[–] nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

But his arms are making a triangle.

With angles that need to be found...

[–] jawa21@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use all three every single day as a machinist xD

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Damn, I've been trying but I keep relapsing

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I use almost daily

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

I.e. day 1209 of not doing anything useful or being a poet. Are you a poet?

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Not me. I went years without until last week I realised I needed them for a script that points an object at a target in Maya. Turns out trig is really fucking universal.

[–] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

The fuck you mean? I sin almost every day

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So no one makes little games as a hobby anymore?

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[–] llama@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In HS trig class I asked the teacher what was the actual logic behind the tan function, and she said "well it's just programmed into your calculator" and I said I realized that but how did it work, she told me to go ask the AP calc teacher.

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