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by mcv
1363 days ago
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> > But math never decreed that sine and cosine have to take radian arguments! > Ummm, actually it did. No, it didn't. Some specific uses looking better with radians does not mean you have to use radians always. When I first learned sine and cosine, we used degrees, and that worked fine. Later we switched to radians, but there's no reason why you shouldn't use turns, and the article gives a very good argument why in some cases you definitely should. |
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It's not just some specific use cases, it's the majority of cases if you look across all of math and science. Switching to turns would be stupid, especially once you start doing differentiation and integration. The fact that we use radians almost across the board isn't some accident.