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• Fleur_@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is this genuine? Like is the unit circle really fucking you up that bad?

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m pretty dumb, so I don’t understand this one.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably that trigonometry is the highest math the average person will take?

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    • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I got to calculus 2 and proceeded to forget everything through algebra II once I took a break from math for a semester.

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• MBM@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You leave my unit circle alone!

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• pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why?

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SOH CAH TOA

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    • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, sohcahtoa. Not to be confused with

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    • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please elaborate.

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• NigelSimmons@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Believe this was featured in a paper that recently used trig to prove the Pythagorean theorem (previously thought to be a circular definition). I think some highschoolers cracked it as part of a mathematics challenge or something.

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• swab148@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone needs to turn this into loss

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is it 1

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  • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was freely chosen for simplicity.

    If you choose another R, the other sides (x and y) become Rcos(th) and Rsin(th)

    I don’t understand what is harmful about the unity circle either.

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it’s a unit circle.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    for the same reason that rulers start with 1, it would be utterly pointless to use anything else.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Your ruler starts with 1? How do you measure stuff between 0 and 1?

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• humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Took me a minute to notice, but it was worth it

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Notice what??

    You can use the spoiler tag

    No spoiler

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Notice what, exactly. I still don’t get it.

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    • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Take a look again, it’s still there

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• openrain502r@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SOH CAH TOA is just a trick to make rote memorization of procedure easier. Understanding the unit circle will let you understand what trigonometry is actually doing.

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, dividing a circle into 360 parts, then subdividing those by 60, and further subdividing those by 60 makes so much more sense than just using ratio of a number fundamental to circles themselves.

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• blakeus12@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the unit circle lives in my nightmares.

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