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Spins in radians

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pinguman
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why do we call spins in degrees, i.e. 360's, 720's etc. Why not radians. 2π's or 4π's.


Dec 17 2011 7:51PM
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Milksteak
Posts: 9948 - Karma: 842
That was almost funny.
Dec 17 2011 7:52PM
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yuck
Posts: 8384 - Karma: 2,090
because everyone fucking hates radians and they are confusing

or maybe thats just me. but fuck radians.
Dec 17 2011 7:52PM
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Jeffmnicholas
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i support this, i cant wait to do a pretzel 3π/2 off
Dec 17 2011 7:53PM
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MFM
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Fuckin Raykins!
Dec 17 2011 7:57PM
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alexat955
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why don't we just name tricks in spherical coordinates? it would just make everything so much cooler
Dec 17 2011 7:58PM
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Parks.
Posts: 5612 - Karma: 1,093
What else sould we call them?
Dec 17 2011 8:00PM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
SI units all the way bro !
Dec 17 2011 8:02PM
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Deluge
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Dec 17 2011 8:05PM
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GORILLA.
Posts: 1112 - Karma: 70
i dont know wat this is
Dec 17 2011 8:29PM
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JakeAssBeatClap
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Butt fuck?
Dec 17 2011 8:32PM
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skijunkiedtm
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"Yo you see that 4pi?" "Yeah dude sooooo blunted."
Dec 17 2011 8:38PM
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iSmokeweed
Posts: 4793 - Karma: 1,370
are you taking geometry, and just realizing that angles are not the only measurement of rotation?

old news bro.
Dec 17 2011 8:41PM
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giantsrock28
Posts: 115 - Karma: 31
makes total sense, you start out on Pi then you move up to doing 2Pis.
Dec 17 2011 9:27PM
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Low.End
Posts: 556 - Karma: 21
dub cork 7πs are now in.
Dec 17 2011 9:33PM
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DrZoidberg
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lul. And we'll also use line integrals to describe rails. And surface integrals to describe rainbow boxes.
Dec 17 2011 9:37PM
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*Bird
Posts: 1895 - Karma: 316
someones taking pre-calc and doing the unit circle...
Dec 17 2011 9:38PM
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Stose
Posts: 7109 - Karma: 4,123
no this is a great idea. then we do dont have to remember all those big numbers. like a 10somethingorother. I mean we could just say he did a 5 or a 7, but then i dont really know if he did the extra 40 or 20 degrees or not
Dec 17 2011 9:43PM
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McFellon
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trig pre-calc sucks
Dec 17 2011 9:50PM
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bfulmer
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this will never happen because calculus sucks
Dec 17 2011 9:54PM
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Anathema
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YO DAWGG I SO 4 PI'd THAT SHIT LIKE WHOAAAAA
Dec 17 2011 9:54PM
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special_k10101
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ignore the haters. i lolled
Dec 17 2011 10:10PM
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easy.steezy
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Haha I was thinking about this the other day.  My calc teacher said that we shouldn't even be using degrees at all, that we should've learned radians from elementary school instead of degrees.
Dec 17 2011 11:04PM
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