Good morning! @XanderHenderson If you're up for it, I'd like to try and define these terms for you so that you can help me, but I don't necessarily know what those things have to do with my approximation, or getting rid of the error pictured here in the following link. Here's the error of my function compared to Bhaskara I's from -pi/2 to pi/2 for x: desmos.com/calculator/sijaovw092

You will have to bear with me I'm afraid, and I think it would be silly to say, "oh, well if you can't define these terms, then you're not doing mathematics and I therefore am incapable of helping you."

@NicolasChabanovsky It looks like I am late to the party, however my opinion was in line with the rest of the mod team. Thanks, Nicolas.

@NicolasChabanovsky Thanks for the link

Today I was reading about complex field.

Fell in the most retarded trap ever!

Absolute value of complex number is defined as magnitude of it but I interpreted it as modulus lol.

It's kinda funny when you learn something new and do retarded mistakes.

@Stupidquestioninc I would prefer it if you would refrain from using the term "retarded" in the manner in which you are using it.

@AMDG As I said before, I am a mathematician---I know how to do mathematics. In my world, mathematics starts with good definitions. Once you define an object in a rigorous, mathematical manner, I might be able to help you. If you cannot give a clear definition, then I am afraid that you are not doing mathematics as I understand it, and I will not be able to help you.

@XanderHenderson How about "Impeded by the most retarding trap ever!"? =P

@user21820 That seems fine.

Or even "Retarded by the most impeding trap ever!"

@XanderHenderson Muddling madmatical malady!

Confounding consonance, Batman!

@XanderHenderson: Take a little of this double-distilled water with changed bond angle!

It will definitely distill your income!

Oh... my...

@user21820 can't believe chem stuff found it's way into math stack exchange ;-)

@XanderHenderson I am a programmer and a contemplative. I know how to make computers do what I please, and I gather knowledge primarily by contemplation and then research as well. In my world, I have no formal definitions available to define my ideas, and no means to communicate them, though they are well-defined informally in my head. Since I do not know how to define an object in a rigorous, mathematical manner, then I'll need you to help me define them, please.

Where do I even begin?

I'm not going to waste 10 years of my life learning how to rigorously define and document all my ideas for everyone else, I'll tell you that much, because the papers I've read have formal notations I have never seen before, yet they describe, in part, my ideas, and I surmise that it would take an unreasonable amount of time to learn all of them, and I have a project to finish.

And I mean... how do I even begin to define an axiom? This isn't like I can just trivially use existing formal definitions and mathematics to define a system of origins as I have described them, can I?

It's going to be the basis of my project.

Correction: it is the basis of my project already.

@DeadGuy It was related to "muddling malady" and "drinks". Either way, this room isn't supposed to be focused on mathematics, if I got the owner's meaning right.

@AMDG You have asked for help. I don't understand what your question is, I don't understand what you are trying to do, and I don't understand how you are using the terms that you are using. You don't have to spend "10 years" learning to make your definitions rigorous, but if you can't make them meaningful or rigorous, then you can't expect others to help you.

In any event, as @user21820 has pointed out, this really isn't the room for mathematics. Not much was going on here yesterday, so I didn't see a problem going a little off-topic, but if you want to continue in your current vein, I would suggest that you try one of the more math-centric rooms.

For example:

Well I'll head over there, but right now, the most straightforward answer I can give you is that I'm now looking for an error function that makes my approximation of cosine exact. desmos.com/calculator/4v9jvatsv0

"Just needs a bit of a half turn and we'll be there"

Not to prolong the discussion, but I am compelled to point out that anyone with high-school education should not need more than a few months to get some proper foundation in basic mathematics. One way I personally recommend is to go through Spivak's Calculus text. Although it is only about real analysis, the logical rigour will serve you well in all other mathematical areas.

Without being able to reason and talk with the same rigour, nothing much can be accomplished.

Yes, well I don't have months to spare right now. I have a project. My plan is to let someone else do the rigorous defining for me. I'll pay if I have to because I'm certain that whatever I can come up with will not be as good as theirs for my own stuff.

Anyways, I'll be in Mathematics now.

@user21820 i was tryna joke ;)

@DeadGuy Ah.