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by dylan604 1359 days ago
The one that I still use is the 3-4-5 rule to ensure a right angle. Still use that one to chalk off sporting fields of play.
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I use that one all the time, but that's Pythagoras, not sin and cos.
Yeah, I know it's not the same type of math, but it's one of the few things that I still use today. To be honest, I can't think of one time in my professional career that I have needed to calculate the area under a curve to solve a life problem. Geometry has been the most used branch of math past basic arithmetic, oh, and algebra. It amazes me the number of people that don't realize how many times in a day they have solved for X.