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[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Coming from someone that memorized it in high school and hasn't used it since, I am enraged.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's a formula very useful for a tone of engineering fields, electronic, mechanics, automatic control and probably a bunch more. I used it a tone in my early carrier, including the imaginary flavor.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah if your field uses anything beyond basic math this bitch is hiding somewhere

My field (cryptography) is unlikely to run into this, despite having some advanced math. There's just not that much use for anything in 2D, and abstract algebra doesn't bother with things as mundane as "numbers".

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

When I started Chem engineering in college, it blew me away that like 80% of lab math and analisis was just using the linear equation everyone bitched and moaned about how useless it was in high-school.

The fucking what flavor.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Tonne not tone < tonne is the measurement/a lot, whilst tone is sound

Flavour not flavor, you don’t want people thinking you’re a gross American.