• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I’ve taken like four or five advanced trigonometry courses and I still can’t really define what trigonometry is. Mathematics is like Andrew Tate’s Hustler University scam. If you take one class, it only exists to prove that you’re a mark and sell you more classes.

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      11 months ago

      Trig is basically the study of a wiggly line and how it turns out to be useful everywhere

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      11 months ago

      I have a masters in math and I have no fucking idea what a second course in “advanced trigonometry” looks like much less a fifth