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They don't realize/they lack intuition about the nonlinearity of going from rectangular to polar coordinates.
Things like this aren't necessarily immediately obvious, depending on one's academic background.
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They don't realize/they lack intuition about the nonlinearity of going from rectangular to polar coordinates.
Things like this aren't necessarily immediately obvious, depending on one's academic background.