My only take on high school math is fuck trigonometry — people who get to complex numbers can treat all of trig as a mildly interesting corollary, essentially no one else needs to know it.
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People who are like “uh what about carpenters” — they can learn it in carpentry school if it’s even necessary, which they must already be doing because it is taught so badly in math classes.
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I used to be a heavy equipment crane operator and even in that instance which is basically a trig problem the crane does all the calcs
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Someone had to build the thing that does the calcs
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I mean I don’t know if anyone actually makes this counter argument, it’s just an argument that I imagined some people might make.
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In my experience carpenters or builders use pythagorean triples and don't use trig beyond that
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Using trig is necessary once you move beyond hanging a damn shelf or anything that you would need a mitre saw for. You all have some real “I’ll hire someone for that” privilege.
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