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[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago (29 children)

It's also a day without using anything he learned in art, or geography, or chemistry, or English literature, or history, or pretty much anything he studied in school after age 10. Why does math get singled out?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I use basic math daily. I use algebra frequently.

I have not use trigonometry since I passed high school trigonometry.

Most people in modern society don't use it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

3d graphics and video games use a lot of trig

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Definitely. Sometimes I wonder how hard those things would've been to program in my projects if I was never taught any of it in HS. It certainly made me grateful that I paid attention in those classes!

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