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Let no one accuse me of being a competent artist or comedian.

A three-panel meme. The first says "Fahrenheit" and an image of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The second says "0° Fahrenheit" and combines a cold-looking blue-tinted version of the image of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit with a common meme image of a frozen person. The third says "90° Fahrenheit" and shows a sweltering, red-tinted Fahrenheight combined with a well-known sweating person meme image. The third image is also rotated a quarter turn counter-clockwise.
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Another American thing maybe? Always been clockwise for me

    Edit: ah duck me, trig goes the other way round, forgot, everything else is clockwise tho

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.

    (I made up Albert Sine. I don't know that there's anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he'd go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)

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