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Trigonometry (thelemmy.club)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/youdontsurf@lemmy.world
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[Harold leaning back in his chair: Day 1209 of not using sin, cos or tan.]

I've been clean since 2002.

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[–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I used an arctan the other day cutting new window trim for my house where everything is very much not square. Cut came out perfect on the first try, felt proud.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I've done that sort of thing before, too. But my experience is that I spend 20 minutes scratching out a formula that would make my physics profs proud, then make the cut, it comes out wildly off, I realize I would have been better off eyeballing it, and then I hide my failure with caulk

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