By trigfail - 25/09/2010 08:57 - New Zealand

Today, I failed my trigonometry exam because my scientific calculator was on the wrong setting. FML
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albinoV 1

You had it set to "radian" when you wanted "degree" am I right?

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tatiee_fml 0

Hahaha. And you didn't notice this at all...Shame on you, not the calculator.

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beth2011 0

oh my gosh!!!... I totally did that the other day too!:(

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iheartfob 0

Meh I did that in the summer and only bothered to sort the settings out last week.

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Jociek 4

radians and not degrees, right? been there ;-)

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Jociek 4

just because you can use a calculator doesn't mean it's easy, dumbass! You obviously have around an 8th grade education. REAL math generally requires a calculator. Knowing how to solve the problem and correctly use the calculator is the challenge. It's not addition you dumb-****!

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mad2physicist 0

REAL math NEVER requires, or even ALLOWS, a calculator, you dumb fück!. In real math everything is proofs, proofs, and more proofs. And even when computations are done, they're generally left in terms of variables. Clearly you mean the kind of pussy math done by engineers, not REAL math.

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HappyPickles 11

The aim of the exam was to determine if you can get the correct answers. You didn't, so the exam correctly proved you were incompetent at using a calculator. Exams: 1; OP: 0

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NewThink 0

Had you known what you should have about math, the answers should have looked wrong. Solution? Check next time. I always check by asking what the sine of pi over two is.

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jackie31337 0

YDI for relying on a calculator. Back in my day, we just drew a unit circle to determine the value of the trig functions at different radian angles. If we were lucky, they let us use a slide rule. (Yes, I'm officially old.)

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MrJentipede 2

Degrees vs. radians, really? Surely you would realize the answers are far off, I suspect you would have failed anyway.

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42billybob 5

agreed. i haven't done trig in a while but doesn't degree mode deal with the 360 range and radian mode deal with like... 3 and a bit? you were shifting decimals weren't you?

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