More Mathematically Moral Memes!

  • DigDoug@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That’s why the unit circle definitions of trig functions are better. “The y coordinate of the point on a unit circle 90 degrees anticlockwise from the positive x-axis” makes a lot more sense than “The ratio between the lengths of a line segment and… another identical line segment in exactly the same place”.