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By Ivy · Posted
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By Ashley0616 · Posted
calmness: : a period or condition of freedom from storms, high winds, or rough activity of water : complete absence of wind or presence of wind having a speed no greater than one mile (1.6 kilometers) per hour see Beaufort Scale Table : a state of tranquility -
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By Jani · Posted
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By Lydia_R · Posted
Thanks for responding @Vidanjali! You rock! Yes, I'm really good at trig and most of what you were writing about is old hat to me. I studied trig while I was living on the streets in 2004. After about two weeks of studying the Plane Trigonometry book that I had checked out from the Seattle library, I woke up at 3am on the sidewalk and realized that .5 is the sine of 30 degrees and .523 is the circumference measure in radians up to 30 degrees. After that, it all opened up for me and a few weeks later I coded an animated webpage slinky. I started getting into coding perspective properly. And then after a month or two of that, I went back to applying my new trigonometry skills to the collision detection I was coding previously only with ratios to make a video game I was calling Micropede, a Centipede type of clone. And then a few months after that I coded an Asteroids type clone with shields in about 4 hours that I called Bumper Bubbles. And with a bunch of effort of getting off of the streets and more studying, I went on to have a computer programming career for the last 20 years. I always get a kick out of getting paid to do trigonometry, but I'm certainly not doing it every day. This line of thought recently has come around to the old question of how to code the trigonometric function. What is the code inside of the multiplication, division and trig functions in a calculator? It seems that multiplication has the 10x10 multiplication table coded in as constants and then it loops to do numbers larger than 100 (for base 10). Division is just like how you would solve a division problem. It involves guessing. So a computer function to do division would have to go through loops while it guesses and uses multiplication. Then comes the trigonometric function. I've been thinking a lot lately that pi is calculated by producing a large physical wheel and rolling it out on a flat surface and measuring it. When I was on the streets, I would take a Starbucks stir stick and put a hole in either end of it. I'd put a push pin in one end and then my pen in the other end. That is one way to draw a perfect circle and it doesn't matter whether the stir stick is straight because the line between two points is always a perfect line. The other way to do it is with a string instead of the stir stick. When I was on the streets, it made me wonder how humans made perfectly straight, flat objects. My theory is that it evolved over time. Once you can create a perfect circle or saw blade, then you can use that to make a flat surface. But the trick is a crap in crap out deal. You have to start with a really perfect circle. But you have introduced a new concept here with the square root deal. Andy has been mentioning square roots with a song called the square root of two that he listens to. And that brings up irrational numbers and personally, with where I am at in math, I don't place a huge significance on "irrational" yet. I mean, would the same number have the same infinitely repeating pattern if it were expressed in a different base? Maybe it does. I don't tend to find the concept of that all too interesting. But how you mention sqrt(3)/2 is interesting and is something I haven't considered yet. You know, I could have been doing drugs on the streets, but I figured that I'd have a better chance at making a good life for myself if I studied this stuff and well, I was 33yo when I wound up on the streets and it's not like I felt I was missing out on some big drug experience that I hadn't experienced before. I got to the point where math and programming were more fun that drugs, so like that, I guess math became my drug of choice. Or work. Math is an inexpensive hobby. Hugs, Lydia_n -
By Abigail Genevieve · Posted
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By Willow · Posted
@KymmieL yes you’d better avoid the Snap on Truck EXCEPT. (Oh oh) when you need a special tool. They are very good at having all the Dealerships only tools. They somehow get ahold of one (or made it in the first place) those things that keep dealers in that special place of being the only place certain things can be fixed. I once had a FiAT X1/9. Mid engine sports car. To adjust the timing, a relatively simple thing to do back in the 70s, you had two choices, cut a hole in the firewall to put a wrench through or buy or make a special wrench. Parts department at the dealer swore there was no such special wrench. After much research I found the part number. (Internet did not exist yet). It was before IBM made the first PC. The parts manager finally agreed to get me the part but only if I paid up front and it was mine, regardless of what came in. It was exactly what I needed a 14mm wrench with a specially shaped handle. That went around the distributor cap and turned backwards. Looked somewhat like the letter C with an open wrench head at the bottom. Fix It Again Tony -
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By atlantis63 · Posted
if I can eat it, sausages wrapped in bacon I say if I can eat it, I've been eating chocolate this afternoon.. lots of chocolate
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