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Equality 7-2521 
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Posted: February 13 2007 at 12:36 |
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Men proficient in Trigonometry get all the chicks, don't be jealous.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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video vertigo
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Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:17 |
you guys are nerds 
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"The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa
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Padraic
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Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:10 |
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Sin(1/x) is pretty cool.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:08 |
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^ You have to admit that cosh and sinh are cool to say though.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 23:50 |
 Equality 7-2521 wrote:
Man With Hat wrote:
Inverse trig is better. 
But ill go with cosecant. Honorable mention to Cotangent though. Such a beast.
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Yeah, but if you include inverse then you have to include hyperbolic too, and then everything is just so sloppy.
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Hyperbolic trig...the black sheep of the trig family, as far as i'm concerned.
Leaving them out is aok with me. 
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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JJLehto
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 23:10 |
Sine all the way.
SIN= 1/CSC baby
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Padraic
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 22:53 |
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 21:13 |
Man With Hat wrote:
Inverse trig is better.
But ill go with cosecant. Honorable mention to Cotangent though. Such a beast.
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Yeah, but if you include inverse then you have to include hyperbolic too, and then everything is just so sloppy.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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moreitsythanyou
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 20:24 |
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secant....the ghetto function... or 1/cosine....either way I felt bad that it had no votes
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 <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]
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Vompatti
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 15:38 |
GoldenSpiral wrote:
and don't forget that e^(i*pi) = -1
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Is it true that e^(i*pi)=1 is carved on Leonhard Euler's tombstone?
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 14:40 |
cosine and sine are tied due to their roles in combining to form e^(ix) and of course the Fourier transform!  and don't forget that e^(i*pi) = -1
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Vompatti
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 14:25 |
Off at tangents! 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 14:23 |
Inverse trig is better. But ill go with cosecant. Honorable mention to Cotangent though. Such a beast.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 14:02 |
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I'd prefer to vote for sin(x) and cos(x) together with a 90 degree phase shift to get exp(i*x).
Yes, I have an endless supply of dorky math jokes.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 08 2007 at 03:52 |
Sinus
I got a few of them, does that make them co-sinusses? |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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kazansky
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 23:30 |
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sine, that's the first one given in my school
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Zac M
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 23:25 |
Well, math isn't my favorite subject, that, and she always makes things seem harder than they really are, it's frustrating. I understand how to do it, nonetheless, I just kinda feel bad for the people in there that have never had any calculus before (this is calculus for science/math majors and most of the people in there haven't had elementary calculus or anything like that previously). I much prefer my German course  , so awesome.
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 23:22 |
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What's wrong with that?
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Zac M
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 21:56 |
eh, cotangent i guess btw, my calculus teacher this semester bites, we've already covered about 3 chapters  .
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: February 07 2007 at 21:54 |
Obviously the best trigonometric function is that of the arctangent... but alas... I will vote for the regular tangent (as it has connotations with rants, and I love a good rant every now and then). 
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