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Apr 15, 2018 at 9:22 audit First posts
Apr 15, 2018 at 9:23
Apr 5, 2018 at 1:21 comment added richard1941 You left out the trig functions from celestial navigation, versine and haversine :-)
Apr 1, 2018 at 11:47 vote accept Xii
Apr 1, 2018 at 8:44 comment added user @VortexYT Please remember that you can choose an answer among the given if the OP is solved, more details here meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/…
Mar 31, 2018 at 0:02 answer added Eric Towers timeline score: 5
Mar 30, 2018 at 16:54 history protected Asaf Karagila
Mar 30, 2018 at 10:17 comment added Nij You should have specified which definitions of the many millions of categories you might have been talking about, as was done in latest edit.
Mar 30, 2018 at 9:53 comment added user202729 A list of questions that Stack Exchange thinks is interesting and displayed on the right side panel or here. Although because the algorithm is automatic, some of them are not interesting. | They tend to get more upvotes but no more downvotes (occasionally even on wrong answers), too, because it takes 125 reputation to downvote but typical users only have 101 (association bonus), but upvotes only take 10.
Mar 30, 2018 at 9:33 comment added Xii @Nij in that case what should I add?
Mar 30, 2018 at 4:19 comment added Nij It's clickbait because people have no information about the content and are forced to either ignore the question or be baited into clicking to find out.
Mar 29, 2018 at 22:26 comment added Jair Taylor Short answer: We don't. We could get by with just $\sin$, $\cos$, maybe $\tan$. The other names are just there by tradition.
Mar 29, 2018 at 21:58 comment added Xii @AsafKaragila Additionally, what on earth is your hot network qs thing?
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Sp/Gr/Synt. Formatting. Readability. Title. Removed irrelevant meta commentary.
Mar 29, 2018 at 21:50 comment added Xii @AsafKaragila how is that a click bait title?
Mar 29, 2018 at 21:43 review Suggested edits
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Mar 29, 2018 at 20:59 comment added Asaf Karagila Yes, it's great to be on the hot network questions list. Can we have a non clickbait title please?
Mar 29, 2018 at 19:14 answer added David Richerby timeline score: 32
Mar 29, 2018 at 18:09 history edited Xii CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 18:07 history reopened MJD
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Mar 29, 2018 at 18:06 comment added Xii @PrzemysławScherwentke How polite(!)
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:31 comment added Przemysław Scherwentke @OttavioBartenor Certainly! OP's question is so strange, that it needs strange examples.
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:12 review Reopen votes
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:17
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:09 comment added Peter I just noticed the score of the linked question ...
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:06 comment added Peter This title is worse. Now we could argue that we do not need $\cos(x)$ because it is $\frac{1}{\sec(x)}$
Mar 29, 2018 at 17:02 comment added anon OP: You wrote the title "why do we need definitions?" and that is the title that caused backlash.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:56 history edited Xii CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:55 history closed Angina Seng
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:55 comment added user296602 Your title should explicitly describe the content of the question. "Why do we need definitions?" is a bad title since it a) doesn't describe what you're actually asking and b) is actively misleading about what the content is. Voting to close as unclear now.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:55 history edited Xii CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:53 history edited user296602 CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:44 answer added J.G. timeline score: 10
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:44 comment added anon Indeed, someone did ask why we need both sine and cosine, to the tune of a 116 question score, 16k views, and being the #3 question in the (trigonometry) tag.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:43 answer added Xander Henderson timeline score: 75
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:42 review Close votes
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:56
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:39 history edited Asaf Karagila CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:36 answer added Joonas Ilmavirta timeline score: 5
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:36 answer added The Integrator timeline score: 21
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:33 history edited anon CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 29, 2018 at 16:32 comment added Ottavio Let's take it further, @PrzemysławScherwentke: why do you need $cos(x)$? It is $sin(x+\frac{\pi}{2})$
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:31 comment added Théophile There's a huge difference between your title and the body of the question: "Why do we need definitions?" is a broad ontological or semantic question, while "Why do we need the function $\sec x$?" is something else entirely.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:31 comment added Sri-Amirthan Theivendran Why not express everything in terms of $\exp(ix)$
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:30 comment added anon While the title is misleading, the question is valid: we (at least seem) to have an unnecessary surplus of trigonometric functions. We could get away with just $\sin$ and $\cos$ for most purposes if we wanted. Which begs the question why they were chosen to be named. This question definitely ran through my mind when first learning trigonometry. I disagree with the downvotes, close votes, and find the top three comments here to be unhelpful.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:28 comment added MJD I'm not sure, but I think these are left over from an earlier time when trigonometry was practiced more geometrically and with less of an algebraic emphasis. The name of the "secant" is another vestige of this time: a "secant" is a line that cuts a curve at two points. What line does the "secant" function refer to? ( I don't know.)
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:26 answer added user timeline score: 5
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:26 comment added Przemysław Scherwentke Why do you need $\tan(x)$? It is $\sin(x)/\cos(x)$.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:25 comment added Randall Because things have to mean something.
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:24 comment added vadim123 What is "their normal form", but another definition?
Mar 29, 2018 at 16:24 history asked Xii CC BY-SA 3.0