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Jun 16, 2021
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thewaterboy
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Yes, frequently. It helps in engineering.
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Have you ever used sin, tan or cos in real life?
Mrs Featerbottom
6/16/21 11:53am
Huh?
OmahaThunderCoug
6/16/21 11:54am
I have only really used sin.
RSL
6/16/21 11:54am
Some nice tans have caused me some sin
mudpupper
6/16/21 12:00pm
tan cos sin
303coug
6/16/21 12:15pm
Not always
mudpupper
6/16/21 12:27pm
ive used sin in a variety of ways. both good and bad.
johnnycarson
6/16/21 11:54am
Yes
scottpete
6/16/21 11:54am
Soh Cah Toa, maybe once a month.
slappy
6/16/21 11:55am
when helping a middle schooler with geometry
johnnycarson
6/16/21 11:56am
yes. measuring straight-line distance using lat/long from 2 geographic points
LeonMarek
6/16/21 11:56am
This is where I used it for work. It was used for finding other nearby clients
Breaded Hamster
6/16/21 12:58pm
Not often, but yes. Right triangle math is useful at times
rggee
6/16/21 11:56am
Yes sir (maam?). Pinball shot angles
TNT
6/16/21 11:56am
Yes, all the time when flying and weaponeering
PickleButton
6/16/21 11:57am
I sin all the time and I tan at the beach but I'm not into cosplay.
ordinary tri guy
6/16/21 11:57am
Who doesn’t use these is the bigger question.
Texas Hammer
6/16/21 11:58am
Absolutely, comes up often in engineering professions.
Setpoint
6/16/21 12:01pm
Is work 'real life' though?
rggee
6/16/21 12:02pm
Or if you've ever built something.
kccougar
6/16/21 12:05pm
Yep. pretty much literally every time I build something the basic
BYUMizzou
6/16/21 12:21pm
Yes, relatively frequently. All math has real life application somewhere.
MetaLearner
6/16/21 12:01pm
Yes, but I had to relearn it all for the job.
ReyOso
6/16/21 12:02pm
Yes, for sure, how else do you know how big of a box you need?
TomPetty
6/16/21 12:02pm
I use them all the time to figure out triangles and angles
Pangare
6/16/21 12:02pm
I know how to use them, just haven't ever used them.
Mrs Featerbottom
6/16/21 12:05pm
I used COS to measure the height of some of our fir trees in our yard. We have 2 dozen+ fir trees in our yard. I was
Zenoch
6/16/21 12:04pm
Wouldn't that be TAN? Knowing the angle and the adjacent length, calc opposite
deejo
6/16/21 12:16pm
Whichever one it is. It's been several years since I did the calculations
Zenoch
6/16/21 12:32pm
All the time. It's basic geometry.
kccougar
6/16/21 12:04pm
Never. It's basic geometry.
Sea Chicken
6/16/21 12:33pm
They're embedded in everything around you.
whirl
6/16/21 12:04pm
Yeah, I built a bed and needed it to figure out an angle.
RyneK
6/16/21 12:06pm
All the time. I have to figure out the degrees of angles for work.
N8Dawg
6/16/21 12:07pm
A lot of my work is based on imaginary numbers and sin, cos, and Tan trig
novacoug1
6/16/21 12:13pm
imaginary numbers..... Do you work for a government finance agency?
Pangare
6/16/21 12:21pm
Of course. Quite a bit.
Northwest Cougar
6/16/21 12:13pm
Pretty often
LaserCoug
6/16/21 12:14pm
Yes. I was building a ladder for a tree house ...
Chareth Cutestory
6/16/21 12:17pm
No
BYUALWAYSNUM1
6/16/21 12:27pm
Every single day at work
Pickett
6/16/21 12:29pm
Almost everyday, sometimes hidden in the math. Rigid body motion has it baked in
AggieWeekendCougar
6/16/21 12:38pm
YES, but kind of indirectly... Use FFT analysis alot, but honestly MATLAB is
Xenon
6/16/21 12:43pm
Yes, frequently. It helps in engineering.
thewaterboy
6/16/21 12:46pm
An unlikely use case for trig
TJ06
6/16/21 1:43pm
Nope, only when I get off on a tangent speaking...
BYU Grounds
6/16/21 4:40pm
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