• ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Trig requires some assumptions and special tools, like SOHCAHTOA and what not that don’t really exist in standard algebra.

    • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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      6 months ago

      It’s a mathematical proof, but it’s using trig inside the proof.

      If you ever want a fun rabbit hole of mathematicians losing their minds, they had a massive existential crisis about calculus with “What if all of calculus is wrong!?!”, and the subsequent proof developed is one of those things that took years and likely involved a lot of amphetamines.