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Calculus made easy
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Wait what? It’s all triangles. We just know the ratios because of the way they are. I can arcsin my way through all my problems.
Physics is what made Calc make sense. Trig is what made physics make sense.
All of geometry is a cult. The only kind I like. Math cult. Good people. Great orgies.
I oppose math cults because I’m a member of bean cults. Our orgies are better, it’s the health benefits of beans
Sure. They relate different properties of triangles or periodic phenomena.
But can you explain what a "sine" operation is actually doing? Algebra and calculus can pretty much all be explained in terms of basic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. But I'm in the same boat as @rekabis@lemmy.ca - trig operations feel like a black box where one number goes in and a different number comes out. I am comfortable using them and understand their patterns, but don't really get them.