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With that example we should be teaching our high school students graph theory. And I'm completely in support of that. Nobody uses geometry to read a map, becaus
by j2kun 14y ago
With that example we should be teaching our high school students graph theory. And I'm completely in support of that. Nobody uses geometry to read a map, because geometry is about shapes and angles, not routes.
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- 001sky 14y agoNobody uses geometry to read a map > http://www.uvm.edu/~goldbar/FM3_25.26.pdf http://www.uvm.edu/~goldbar/FM3_25.26.pdf > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Trilateration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Trila... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodynamics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrodynamics Geometry is important for navigation in different ways, depending on the scale and dimensionality of which you are thinking.
- Evbn 14y agoThe average person is neither inventing GPS nor navigator on a sailing vessel.