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Pi is wrong

Post by RandomGuyOnCouch » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:32 am



I found this very interesting. Note: I wasn't quite sure where to stick a mathematics topic, so I defaulted to science.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:52 am

π works a lot better in the area of a circle formula A = Tr2/2 is a bit clumsy. But I can see the point.
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Post by Azathoth » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:36 am

Nope, not buying it. Trig is going to be fucking tedious either way. It is just shit you have to bite the bullet and learn before you get to the decent stuff
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Post by JimC » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:10 am

Azathoth wrote:Nope, not buying it. Trig is going to be fucking tedious either way. It is just shit you have to bite the bullet and learn before you get to the decent stuff
:lay:

Trigonometry is almost as exciting and interesting as quadratic equations!

Sin2x + Cos2x = 1

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Post by Twoflower » Tue Mar 15, 2011 2:07 pm

Now I want pie.
I'm wild just like a rock, a stone, a tree
And I'm free, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I flow, just like a brook, a stream, the rain
And I fly, just like a bird up in the sky
And I'll surely die, just like a flower plucked
And dragged away and thrown away
And then one day it turns to clay
It blows away, it finds a ray, it finds its way
And there it lays until the rain and sun
Then I breathe, just like the wind the breeze that blows
And I grow, just like a baby breastfeeding
And it's beautiful, that's life

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Re: Pi is wrong

Post by hadespussercats » Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:59 pm

Pi r not square. Pi r round.
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Post by Geoff » Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:07 pm

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Post by hadespussercats » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:25 pm

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Post by SPMaximus » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:14 pm

eeew, pi is disgusting, i want cake :food:
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:02 am

SPMaximus wrote:eeew, pi is disgusting, i want cake :food:
The cake is a lie. :tea:
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Re: Pi is wrong

Post by JimC » Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:03 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote:
SPMaximus wrote:eeew, pi is disgusting, i want cake :food:
The cake is a lie. :tea:
Nonetheless, let them eat it...
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Re: Pi is wrong

Post by Dory » Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:39 pm

JimC wrote:
Azathoth wrote:Nope, not buying it. Trig is going to be fucking tedious either way. It is just shit you have to bite the bullet and learn before you get to the decent stuff
:lay:

Trigonometry is almost as exciting and interesting as quadratic equations!

Sin2x + Cos2x = 1

This is beauty!
Ah the Pythagorean identity... *shows how smart she is by recognizing it* :mrgreen:

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Post by JimC » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:13 pm

Dory wrote:
JimC wrote:
Azathoth wrote:Nope, not buying it. Trig is going to be fucking tedious either way. It is just shit you have to bite the bullet and learn before you get to the decent stuff
:lay:

Trigonometry is almost as exciting and interesting as quadratic equations!

Sin2x + Cos2x = 1

This is beauty!
Ah the Pythagorean identity... *shows how smart she is by recognizing it* :mrgreen:
It is indeed! Where the radius of the unit circle is the hypoteneuse of the right-angled triangle with angle x to the horizontal axis, sin x and cos x are the other 2 sides...
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Re: Pi is wrong

Post by Dory » Wed Mar 16, 2011 9:45 pm

JimC, did you also take engineering or just science?

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