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by tychonoff 5370 days ago
The author shunned mathematics in favor of programming, but this exercise showed why that was a mistake.

Compared to serious mathematics, programming is relatively trivial.

With mathematics, you can do anything in computing.

Without it, you're reduced to this feeble exercise in self-enlightment.

1 comments

I completely agree with you. This line:

  As humans, however, degrees ranging from 0 to 360 are much easier to read. That’s why you can and should convert between them with this simple formula.
Made be cringe.
Radians made no sense to me - until I found out the relationship to PI and then it's a much more natural was of describing angle - especially if you use Tau.