[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron quoted:
"Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry
because the framework is wrong," says Wildberger, whose book is titled
Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (Wild
Egg books).
I have to admit that when I saw the subject line of this message, then the
title of the book, my mind immediately jumped to the conclusion, "Oh, no:
here comes 'Intelligent Design' for mathematics!"
Thankfully, it's not *that* bad, but it kind of reminds me of Chisanbop, a
math fad from Korea some years ago, the only bit of which stuck with me is
the ability to count to 99 on ten fingers.
I actually use that to keep count on things sometimes. I'm not
proficient enough to do subtraction quickly with it, and I can subtract
in my head fairly rapidly, if we're talking about numbers less than or
equal to 99.
Yes, I know you can get to 1023 using binary.
Yes, and after I thought about that, I realized that added a whole new
twist on the inside joke I had with a friend in HS, "You KNOW what you
can do with that 4!" (! is not intended as a mathematical operator, but
mere English punctuation in that sentence.)
Julia
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