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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days agoBut it doesn’t explain it. It is a graph of the equation. But that doesn’t explain the equation. That’s why I gave the parabola example.
Showing a graphical form of the equation is still only the question but in another format. That’s what makes it circular. If you ask why something is Y = X^2 and I only show you a graph of Y = X^2, that’s not answer. It’s the question in a graphical format.
hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
it explains it using other formulas. It’s like if the teacher taught you trigonometry using algebra. They expect you to either already know algebra, or to learn it from somewhere else. You could say that the teacher is just restating trigonometric questions in algebraic format, and that might be a fair way to interpret it, but that also might be enough for people who already know algebra