Vanity! Anyone here have good working trigonometry function skills?

August 2, 2011 | me

[Allegra]

Ewwww...trigonometry. Ewwww.

{...bad memories from college days...}

[dhs12345]

And solve for hypotenuse. Need a calc that computes cos or sin.

[SuzyQue]

Chuckle.

Of course you can.

[mlocher]

Anyone here have good working trigonometry function skills?

BRL

[Texas Fossil]

..all the chemistry people who practice the black arts of transmogrification. Merlin would be proud.

ImageMagick has a command named "mogrify" that is truly amazing (truly magic). I used it to size a batch of 80,000 images for a website project once. That piece of software is the most powerful command line program I ever used. It is open source and even our military uses it.

[mlocher]

All triangles have a total of 180 degrees on the internal angle.

I think that the Budget Committee in Congress could somehow find a way to prove you wrong.

[grey_whiskers]

Cheers!

[Deaf Smith]

67 replies and no one has asked...What are you building?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Problem was there weren’t enough receptacles to plug in a whole room of calculators in 1970. ;) Calculators were not used at the Navy school until about 1978.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Sorry, but this information is only privy to the scarecrow.

[Tanniker Smith]

Serious waste of time with unnecessary extra steps that also cause an additional loss of accuracy.

[Tanniker Smith]

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Trigonometry Jones and the Lost Compass

(C)Copyright 2008, C. Burke. All rights reserved.

[freekitty]

Good grief I barely got out of Algebra and my teacher wrote our math text books.

[budda1954]

If the 17 degree angle is directly across from the 104.625, the length of the hypotenuse is 357.85 inches. If the 73 degree angle is directly across from the 104.625, the hypotenuse is 109.40

Hope this helps.

Mark

[grobdriver]

Heh.
My dad not only boasted, but proved, that he could beat me doing complex math equations on his slide rule while I was pecking it out on a scientific calculator (this was circa 1975). I could beat him in decimal places on the answer... but he could get it to a tenth accuracy - and fast!

He also boasted (and proved) that he could shoot a tighter group with his hunting bow than I could with my Ruger .44 at the same distance.

A good man, was my dad.

[GRRRRR]

I’m a biologist masquerading as a product development enginear...although after 32 years at it, I probably would have liked being an ME or a BioMed Eng.

[Nuc 1.1]

I wouldn't dream of it.