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fossilesque @mander.xyz

9mo ago

Harm

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I'm pretty dumb, so I don't understand this one.
- Pythagorean theorem.
  Although, don't solve this or else Pythagoras might throw you off of a boat
  
  Pretty sure this is Pythagorean Identity, theorem is a²+b²=c²
You leave my unit circle alone!
Why?
- SOH CAH TOA
  
  Ah, sohcahtoa. Not to be confused with
  
  Please elaborate.
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.
Someone needs to turn this into loss
Took me a minute to notice, but it was worth it
- Notice what??
  ::: spoiler You can use the spoiler tag No spoiler :::
- Notice what, exactly. I still don't get it.
  
  Take a look again, it's still there
- 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.
- 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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