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Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday December 03, 2021 @04:44PM (#29435995)
Trigonometry has little to do with triangles. It's more appropriately titled circleometry.
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Re:An alarming trend in K-12 math education: a guest post an... by andrewprock on Saturday December 04, 2021 @04:46PM (#29444582)
That's a clever insight. Though the measurement of circles is done using triangles, so maybe there is an even cleverer more Germanic name? Circulotrigometry.
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