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As we say in Scotland:
"Aye, right!"
(Meaning: "no chance")
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Interesting
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It's pretty clear that regime change is the goal, through popular uprising aided by Israeli/US targeting of regime assets/personnel. Minimal civilian damage is key to this strategy.
Assuming the overthrow of the regime is achieved, it's the next stage that's the real challenge. They need a plan!
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Why not start with the unit circle? RATs come out of the unit circle.
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This is great. My problem with focusing on the RA triangle when introducing trig is that it completely ignores the beautiful oscillatory nature of the sine wave and its omnipresence in our lives.
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I'm listening... Forget about straight line, What's the best way to teach basic trig?
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Why is "i" so close to "o" ?
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Of course:
GCF(π, 𝜏)=2 😁
Generally speaking, i'd say no, simply because of the do, then they are essentially the same irrational number, just multiplied by an integer.
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At what point is the world going to tell Elon that failing to put humans on Mars is an unforgivable waste of precious natural resources?
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Could someone just ask the person that created that graphic why those Russian flags are there please?
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Brilliant! Great years, "Dr Who" still going strong! Banchory is beautiful and not far from me. We slagged off Reagan at the time, but turns out he was a true statesman and knew what "leader of the free world" meant.
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(Full disclosure: I'm based in Scotland, but still think it's a great idea)
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3rd!
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When I see this, I don't understand how trump won. Have loads of republicans turned against him since the election?
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Love, strength and courage to the wonderful free people of Georgia. ❤️❤️
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Real leaders, regardless of gender.
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I personally prefer to keep the other sides horizontal and vertical and think of the long side as the radius of a circle with one end at the origin of the x-y plane.
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Aren't triangles 2 and 3 essentially the same, just labelled differently?
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The blood, sweat and tears of these mighty Ukrainian heroes is the foundation on which the new free world is being built. Kateryna, I am in awe of your courage, rest peacefully, beautiful human.
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EVERYTHING the Russians do and say it's for the domestic market in order to maintain support for the regime.
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Orban is not the sharpest tool in the box, how he's in charge of a country is a mystery to me.
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These are the conversations that are interesting. Growth of what? How is growth measured? The system can be changed! We could be maximising happiness, rather than natural resource consumption.
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Ukrainians burn Russian instruments of death. Russia burns innocent lives.
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Zelensky has outplayed everyone. He can literally call the shots.
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Russian air fields are littered with machines of death. They must never be allowed to possess such destructive capability again.
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Don't say: "it's just a joke"
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Also, What's with the graphic that has "radius" in orange, but has nothing to do with the ratio expressed in orange?
What's the point of this post?
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In fact, π is literally the Muppet that tattoos their face in the mirror and then doesn't understand when everyone laughs at them.
It'll go down in history at the world's longest "oh yeah, I get it now!"
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REAL mathematicians would not use π, it's for engineers,
they know no better.
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So this is clearly a bot, but it's not easily identifiable as a bot.
This needs to change
A bot should scream "BOT!"
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These people know they are on the wrong side of history.
If we have learnt one thing from history, it's that humans know right from wrong, ask the Germans.
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Or shift from poorly designed projects to efficiently designed ones, eg. Edinburgh spent £1bn on a single tram line, easily enough for a new efficient free city wide electrified bus network with staged charging introduced so everyone uses without question.
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Ok, so that is way beyond me, but I feel there's an easier way to summarise "rectangular matrices are easier than square"
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No, wait, that's a bad thing! 😂
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Yes, but it's decreasing, whereas the sin of 𝜏 is both zero and increasing!
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Edit:
3) base 6 possibly better:
1 hand goes 0-5, then other counts the 6's, also simple and divisible.
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And when I say "right", I mean: the most efficient way of thinking abstractly about angles and rotation.
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OMG, Tha's a brilliant comparison.
I would argue that base 10 is coincidentally 3 things:
1) brilliant; the symbol and place value number system is inspired
2) arbitrarily based on our number of digits
3) arguably not as good a choice as 12
Degrees may be popular, but that doesn't make it right
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Eh?
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Wait, WTF?
What is this?
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Putin is a coward
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When you start thinking exclusively in 𝜏 for angles and therefore trigonometry, it really does start to make more sense.
My interest is in cognitive efficiency, particularly in early learning. When kids get confused it's SO destructive to their inquisitive enthusiasm.
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I'm glad you asked me that! 😊
Dividing a turn by 360 is totally arbitrary and really has no meaning in math.
Radians is the natural unit of angle and thinking in terms of fractions of a full turn (2π, or better: 𝜏 radians) should be taught from day one.
I saw this in a high school text book:(!)
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We could start by never mentioning degrees in mathematics again. It's fine for navigation, but it's nothing but confusing in mathematics.