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by dsign 894 days ago
It's a great tool when you are a jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one. You can use to decode phase-modulated signals, calculate stress distribution in some mechanical part, get an idea of how the orbit of a particular asteroid will look two hundred years for now, or just make a diagram of a set of events, among many, many other things.