On 4/9/2013 9:56 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
Looking back, I can't believe that my High School Trig course never once mentioned that Sine, Cosine and Tangent are all based on the relationship of the sides of a triangle. That would have made it so easy.
Trigonometry - metry of trigons (*) or "science" of measuring the triangles...
(*) Trigon being the special case of polygon.
And again, if I actually needed to figure out the height of a flagpole from the length of it's shadow, nowadays I'd just Google it & find an on-line calculator that would give me the answer.
Indeed. Did some such yesterday. However, I have previously solved the problem myself and used Google to verify.
I should point out that like money does not grow on trees, knowledge doesn't grow on Google... I should add that I mean no disrespect or offense here...
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