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The author shunned mathematics in favor of programming, but this exercise showed why that was a mistake. Compared to serious mathematics, programming is relati
by tychonoff 15y ago
The author shunned mathematics in favor of programming, but this exercise showed why that was a mistake.
Compared to serious mathematics, programming is relatively trivial.
With mathematics, you can do anything in computing.
Without it, you're reduced to this feeble exercise in self-enlightment.
- jc4p 15y agoI completely agree with you. This line: As humans, however, degrees ranging from 0 to 360 are much easier to read. That’s why you can and should convert between them with this simple formula. Made be cringe.
- ars 15y agoRadians made no sense to me - until I found out the relationship to PI and then it's a much more natural was of describing angle - especially if you use Tau.