• @[email protected]
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    18015 days ago

    If someone didn’t learn enough trigonometry in school:

    1+tan2c = cos2c/cos2c + sin2c/cos2c = (cos2c + sin2c)/cos2c = 1/cos2c;

    sqrt(1/cos2c) = |sec c|

    And here is for the people who still don't get the joke

    The reading of the answer is very similar to the word “sexy”, which makes the whole sentence a reference to the song “Sexy and I Know It” by LMFAO.

    • @[email protected]
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      3915 days ago

      Thanks for this! While I absolutely love science, math is why I never pursued it.

      That and I’m waaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyy too stupid. Lol

    • @HootinNHollerinOP
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      1615 days ago

      But I was taught that the proof was in the pudding

    • JackbyDev
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      1215 days ago

      Thank you for this. Trig was definitely the hardest of the maths for me.

      • @[email protected]
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        414 days ago

        I never learned it. This is one of the few times in my life where it would’ve been useful

    • Admiral Patrick
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      815 days ago

      I was in advanced math classes from like 4th grade all the way up to AP Calc 2 my junior year. Aced all of them except trig. I just could not wrap my head around it.

      • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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        815 days ago

        Trig isn’t that bad? It’s just about relationships between angles and triangles/circles. If you learn SOH CAH TOA and what the inverses are/mean you’ve pretty much got it.

        • @Takumidesh
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          715 days ago

          I struggle with trig because it’s a lot of memorization. The fundamentals are pretty easy, but I never remember the unit circle and I never remember all of the identities.

          • @[email protected]
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            414 days ago

            I only remember useful things. And I consider these useful because I did some low level graphics programmed once and had to use them in practice. Once you understand why these things exist, it becomes that much easier.

        • Admiral Patrick
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          515 days ago

          Yeah, I’m just very spatially-challenged, and I think that’s where my academic understanding and actual understanding breaks down.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    7115 days ago

    I, a smart person, totally get the joke. But could you explain it to my friend?

  • @[email protected]
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    514 days ago

    The first thing I thought was “that’s not the formula for secant” and it’s not. I checked.