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kentauros

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66. I know exactly what you're talking about!

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 07:33 PM

Jun 2014

There's "theoretical" mathematics and then there's "applied" mathematics. In drafting classes, we had the applied mathematics classes, though I never had a need to know applied calculus. That was mostly a class for the engineering technician students.

Applied Trigonometry was great! We were taught real-world problems and how to use it in everyday applications, though I'd say those would be work-based applications. Not much cause to know and/or use the formula "a/ sin A = b/sin B = c/sin C" when grocery shopping

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