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Norman Wildberger has an alternative system for trigonomtry:

Understanding uniform motion: are radians really necessary? | WildTrig

https://youtu.be/CnQXRdgN_7I?si=EiYY99i6mBOIyczI

Wild Trig: An introduction to Rational Trigonometry

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85CyF_7bKd6y36VA...

Where were you when Infantino was selling football to private corporations that implement VAR? The fundamental and defining property of football was that it was played in real time. Referee whistled and that was it. Now decisions are made far away by individuals looking at screens.

> However now a neo-Pythagorian doctrine is emerging, according to which everything is 0/1 bits, and the world is built entirely out of digital information

Can this be true? DNA is the information system of living creatures and as far as I know, it is not coded with 0s and 1s. So, how can we justify that "the world is built entirely out of digital information"?

I read all the comments in the times post and no one mentions that this is due to the motion of the Artemis II. On the moon there is no "earthrise" or "earthset", only a yearly wobble. On the earth the moon rises and sets because of the earth's rotation. I guess the editors of the NYT knew this so that they put the "earthset" in quotes.

I was able to open it in archive

I use nano a lot but this page is not opening for me. Is someone else having the same problem?

A beautiful book by Michel Pastoureau, Blue: The History of a Color (2001), the same content as the article in book form.

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-History-Color-Michel-Pastoureau/...

More detailed video of Plimpton 322 from the authors of the paper https://youtu.be/L24GzTaOll0?si=sNdwKiM7uYXbzVfL

I tried but his pages do not have links to a home page or other posts

It looks like they chose to use the "universal gravitational constant" "k" instead of Newton^s constant, "G": p.23, "k^2 = universal gravitational constant, 1.32452139x10^20, m^3/(sec^2)(sun mass units)"

I think "k" was also known as "Gaussian gravitational constant" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_gravitational_constan...

But the value and unit of "k" given in the Wikipedia page is different. Do you know what NASA document means by "universal gravitational constant" in modern sense?

Mathematician Norman Wildberger has been criticizing the embrace of infinitiy by modern mathematicians for decades: https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger/search?query=infinity

"What's irrefutably proven is that if you take this particular set of axioms, then these conclusions hold."

This is what I tried to say in my comment. It's the author who talks about the truth of the axioms. I'm objecting to his claim that we end up with "something we can know for sure". No. Your truth depends on your assumptions.