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Originally Posted by jmcc I was helping out someone else with precalc today. Seeing degrees again was a trip, because they don't really come up after you learn to use radians. Stupid crappy degrees...

yea, my teacher is trying to deviate away from degrees into radians and pi radians...thanks for the help, jmcc...he doesnt collect homework, but when we went over it in class today, nobody got more than 4 of the questions (out of 9) except for me (with your help ) i got 5 on my own and the 2 you helped me with...so i only needed help with 2 more

thanks again!

Originally Posted by swetooth9 yea, in about 2 or 3 weeks, you will need this haha...when are we gonna play street 3??? you're always on splinter cell and never leave

Sorry bro, definitely soon, but I got grounded for coming home late past my curfew so it might be a while.

I've always asked my teachers "when am I going to use this? Why next year!" That's always the answer I get.

I'm barely getting an A in Pre-Cal not fun. Oh ok, here we go, the tan x = sinx/cosx, see that thing we taught you Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent! Screw that! It's now sin/cos!!!!

I hate also when lets say 45 degrees is root 2 over 2 or something, shit's reeeeetarded.

Originally Posted by ph33r m3 Sorry bro, definitely soon, but I got grounded for coming home late past my curfew so it might be a while. I've always asked my teachers "when am I going to use this? Why next year!" That's always the answer I get. I'm barely getting an A in Pre-Cal not fun. Oh ok, here we go, the tan x = sinx/cosx, see that thing we taught you Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent! Screw that! It's now sin/cos!!!! I hate also when lets say 45 degrees is root 2 over 2 or something, shit's reeeeetarded.

SOH-CAH-TOA will help you a lot.

And if you're going to become an engineer or any science, you'll definitely be using these things later.

so far the only math i've really used in the real world was geometry. i had a job a few years back injecting urethane foam insulation into panels for walk-in coolers. to calculate the amount of foam needed you had to enter the base-height-width measurements into the computer, but we had some odd shapes sometimes (trianlges, trapezoids, and multi-sided irregular shapes). i seemed to be the only guy in my dept that knew how to measure the shapes properly.

there's a little math involved in cinematography, but nothing complicated so far. i'm sure you'll need math if you do anything financial or scientific, but otherwise just knowing how to balance a checkbook seems to be the most math intensive activity for the average person.

Originally Posted by beerguy961 any science, you'll definitely be using these things later.

yea, i'm lookin into science...

Originally Posted by beerguy961 SOH-CAH-TOA will help you a lot. And if you're going to become an engineer or any science, you'll definitely be using these things later.

Yeah i know that SOH CAH TOA stuff, it's easy.

In Chemistry I really haven't used radians or degrees funny enough, being in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry and next year not taking a science I haven't used much math.

I guess Stoicheimoetrey is where it gets tricky but that's simple math.

Originally Posted by Gregory Kimball I would have been able to answer a couple months ago, but that was last semester. My brain can only handle so much math, and right now it's on matrices. Good luck.

I hope you don't take analytical geometry and calculus. You have to know your trig, your geometry and algebra, and the calculus which my instructor says "ties it all together".