@Avery @bwDraco well, I looked. Turns out @TheGreatDuck and @Dodsy have been trading flags here for a couple of days. Latest volley was courtesy of Dodsy, but TheGreatDuck still leads by a fair margin for raw numbers pointless flags.
@Twink and @Dodsy look starting this discussion again is just gonna take things downhill, can we just reconcile, say it was a misunderstanding, and cut it out?
@LeakyNun Teaching Chaos. Day 1 of class: asked students for a function to use as example rather than using one whose behavior I knew ahead of time. Talk about working without a wire.
the most obvious is: suppose someone tells you the proportions of a right triangle, and you want to find out the angle of it. you'd use inverse trig functions to find that
@nitsua60 perhaps in case you missed it! as i saw you told you are teaching Chaos theory so thought of telling you of this chat room,it would be great if you step by some time! Dynamical systems and chaos theory
along the same lines, if someone tells me the x-y components of velocity then I can inverse trig functions to determine what my heading is e.g. how many degrees north of east
@Dodsy @Abcd @LeakyNun I choose to leave the site and you people send me a bunch of email notifications excusing me of having duplicate accounts? If you have an issue contact a moderator. I'm not your babysitter and it's not me job to mediate when you people decide to get in an argument. I've asked you to leave me alone, and that wasn't a joke. Stop trying to contact me. Thank you.
we never tagged Typhon. We just mentioned him by name.
@Dodsy for a fun way of looking at inverse trig functions, suppose you take the graph of $y=\sin x$ and flip it along the x=y line i.e. draw the graph of $x=\sin y$
@BAYMAX Knowing there's a room dedicated to the topic I'm teaching is super-helpful, thanks. One use I can imagine putting it to is to say "hey, folks--I'm looking for a two-dimensional system that's a nice real-world example of saddle-behavior. Any ideas?"
