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#1 2009-01-25 15:03:17
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Trigonometry
I have much expanded my coverage of Trigonometry.
Please check out Trigonometry Index and let me know any errors/suggestions etc.
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#2 2009-01-25 15:27:17
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Re: Trigonometry
could you add something like this:
i will browse through all the things later and help to make it better.
Edit: oops i never saw that!
but u can still add a chart for cos, tan, sin, sec, csc, and cot i.e. 30, 45, 60, 90
radians maybe?
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#3 2009-01-29 11:28:19
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Re: Trigonometry
Thanks careless, I do have such a page but didn't include it in the index (I do now) See "Unit Circle"
I also have added: Interactive Triangles ... does it work nicely?
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#4 2009-01-29 13:02:58
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Re: Trigonometry
Instead of a note explaining why rounding errors make the angles' total non-constant, I'd say it'd be better to "force" the angles to all add to 180, by (say) rounding to the nearest degree for a and b and then setting c = 180-a-b.
Doing this won't make c wrong by more than a degree, so I wouldn't think the error would be visually noticable.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#5 2009-01-31 20:12:49
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Trigonometry
I viewed about 7 pages from those in the Index.
Errors? I didn't find any.....
Suggestions : None! All the information and illustrations are good enough. There's no room for making them any better!!!
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#6 2009-02-01 09:49:19
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Re: Trigonometry
Thanks Guys!
mathsy: wouldn't that be cheating ... ? 
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#7 2009-02-01 11:42:15
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Re: Trigonometry
No, you'd just be using an unconventional rounding system. 
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#8 2009-02-01 13:29:41
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Re: Trigonometry
Good laugh! 
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#9 2009-02-05 03:47:10
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Re: Trigonometry
Very nice, MathsIsFun... you never cease to amaze me!
If only Maths Is Fun existed many years ago when I began learning about trigonometry. The way you explain things with such simplicity would have been so helpful. 
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#10 2009-02-05 10:15:48
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Re: Trigonometry
Thank You! What a nice compliment
I cannot take all the credit ... some of the pages were co-authored by a maths teacher called Les Gates.
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