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Interesting. Another interesting thing are archaic trigonometric functions like versine and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versine https://en.wikipedia.org
by partycoder 10y ago
Interesting.
Another interesting thing are archaic trigonometric functions like versine and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versine
- leephillips 10y agoAlso reminds me of terms from music such as "hemidemisemiquaver".
- blastrat 10y agowow, thanks! that is an incredibly interesting article, and way to learn trig, I think I would have gained more insights had that been part of my introduction. I'm sort of wondering if that terminolgy sounded more natural then because in "older" English, closer to Germanic roots, it was natural to create new words by pasting together morphemes.
- jfroma 10y agoCorrect me if I am wrong but I don't think this one is that archaic. I remember this one from high school (1999/2000). Is "verseno" (Spanish).
- tamana 10y agoIt's not really archaic as a name, it's just a very rarely used concept. When would you need to refer to versions by name?
- partycoder 10y agoTechnically they still hold true, but most people don't use them or even know about them these days.
- bzbarsky 10y agoIn fairness, versine is "archaic" in the "my parents used this when they were in school, but I didn't need to" sense. It only went out of use when people stopped using trig tables, replacing them with digital calculators. And of course the actual calculation of this function had to be done (up to a factor of 2) all the time during navigation until things like GPS appeared. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine_formula