• JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    I always yearned to understand a practical reason to learn calculus. My teacher at college was a German woman that spoke English with a thick accent. Her joy for the course seemed self-evident, but she failed to ever share a real-world reason or application for what we were trying to learn. 45 years later,I still haven’t used what I “learned”, or ever came to understand why we did.

  • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    You’re literally using a device powered by electricity that extensively relies on an understanding, implementation and exploitation of sinusoidal maths.

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      5 months ago

      Ah, the irony of operating a video compression algorithm while claiming you never use trigonometry.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’s also a day without using anything he learned in art, or geography, or chemistry, or English literature, or history, or pretty much anything he studied in school after age 10. Why does math get singled out?

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    5 months ago

    I literally, 30 seconds ago, used sin^-1() to calculate the angle for a roof I need to make for my indoor greenhouse, so the asshole cats don’t fall through the cheap plastic

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    5 months ago

    I had a maths teacher who upon being asked, whats the point in maths? Or whenever he heard I’m not going to use this in the rest of my life! Would break into a ten minute speech. You have to study maths because what it is at it’s core is just doing the same thing over and over again with slight variations. -more waffle I can’t remember- and after school you will go off to some job where you do the same thing over and over again where you will spend the next 60 years of your life. And then you die.

    It got quite depressing.

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      5 months ago

      “No John, you probably won’t ever have to use trigonometry in your life. But some of the smart kids probably will”

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      5 months ago

      You’re also technically using them if you merely play games. Edit: You also use cos when making or viewing a jpg, so the author of the meme did in-fact use at least cos on that day.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t remember where, but I actually had to use some sin func for calculating something to play more efficient.