My bro that never used a bridge, stairs, gone into a building with unyielding faith that it won’t crash down just because, used a gps, rode a car, a plane, go into a freaking theme park ride, participate from the whole economic system:
I used the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry to score an ~800 m headshot in Arma 3. It was a lot of grid spaces away. Pythagorean theorem to get the hypotenuse, then trig to get the vertical offset.
Felt like a math sniper badass when I hit the shot the first time.
NEEERDDDDD
I tried to use it to see if I could see fireworks from my house once. I spent an hour or two before I realized it was actually a trigonometry problem and just had to figure out the angles.
The only other time was when I made a chart for a subreddit to show their average growth rate. I made them some art and a discord, and it was really cool to see the community flourish.
I find myself using parabolas a lot more often.
“Another day has passed and I still haven’t used the notion that the height of something on a slope is equal to the horizontal distance from the start of the slope times the steepness of the slope plus the initial height of the slope off the ground.” I swear people treat math as something you explicitly need to sit down and write the equations for to get any use out of instead of just, like, them being useful to make you a more logical, well-rounded thinker. It’s like thinking the sole point of reading Of Mice and Men in 8th grade is so that you can randomly recite quotes from it years later.
I went to a private high school in the US and graduated in 06, just to set the scene.
Animal Farm was on the reading list sophomore year, and you were tested on it strictly on the plot. What happened. Who did what. That’s it.
The class as a whole learned more about cheating than anything, because the teacher used the same tests for his whole career. They were typed on a typwriter, you just wrote your answers on your own paper and turned them both in. He was a good basketball coach from what I understand though, so… yeah.
Its either
ax+bormx+n
Pick one you lunatics…
We use Mx + C
C as in constant
We were taught mx+b and ß0 + ß1x
I used math to see if I could scale my 3d print model and see if it could fit in my print bed diagnolly instead of laid horizontally and vertically. My math was wrong, I thought I could do it but I missed some numbers.
I constantly use gurgles and graph data for my stem job. Everyone should have a similar base of knowledge. I don’t complain that I learned about the Mongolian empire or read Of Mice and Men.
Unfortunately, the people thinking they don’t need to know stuff are also the people “doing their own research” on vaccines and such.
Learning stuff doesn’t just impart knowledge, it rounds out your understanding of what you don’t know and where you should yield to expertice which is arguablyequally as important as knowing stuff.
I’ve used it to check how long I would need to save to reach a certain amount of savings considering my current spending/saving habits
