• RushingSquirrel@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    One day, while working on a website, I was wondering how to calculate a specific point in a graph. After googling, the answer was by using sine and cosine. Mind blew away, I had always thought I’d never use them.

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      1 year ago

      And guess what? You found it out without having to memorize the process until you knew it by heart.

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        1 year ago

        Apparently, they didn’t know it by heart. If they had, they wouldn’t have had to spend all that time searching.

          • Liz@midwest.social
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            Not really. The point of getting really good at it in your teenage years is so that when it shows up 30 years later you have a vauge idea of what you’re looking at and can figure it out again. If you had only a surface level understanding to begin with, it’ll all be totally gone by the time you need it again, and very few people have the gumption to teach themselves a subject from scratch.