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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

I've taken like four or five advanced trigonometry courses and I still can't really define what trigonometry is. Mathematics is like Andrew Tate's Hustler University scam. If you take one class, it only exists to prove that you're a mark and sell you more classes.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 2 years ago

Trig is basically the study of a wiggly line and how it turns out to be useful everywhere

[-] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed the trigonometry unit in my highschool geometry class, but that's because it was mostly proofs, and those were just philosophy about triangles.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I have a masters in math and I have no fucking idea what a second course in "advanced trigonometry" looks like much less a fifth

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