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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But isn't it fascinating that NASA used theoretical math that didn't have an intended use by the mathmaticians that developed it years ago, but it ended up working well with orbital entry calculations?

There's a lot of theoretical math that ends up being very real.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Quaternions? They were used as intended - to represent rotation.