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From: Greg Neill on 15 Dec 2009 20:56 Sam Wormley wrote: > On 12/15/09 6:51 PM, Phil Bouchard wrote: >> Greg Neill wrote: >>> >>> Okay, a square has side length 1. What is the length of the >>> diagonal. Use spherical coordinates if you wish. Show >>> us the answer and how you calculated it. >> >> If the input is: >> rho = sqrt(1^2 + 1^2 + 1^2) >> rho = 1.73 > > Phil confuses squares and cubes.... are we surprised? And he uses the Cartesian formula for distances to do his calculation supposedly in order to avoid using square roots! What a maroon!
From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:00 Greg Neill wrote: [..] > Sorry, you used a square root so it can't be right, > can it Phil? Not according to your theory of the > world. Also, if you thought that irrational > numbers were scary, using trig functions lands you > right smack in the land of transcendental numbers... This is because you do not understand mathematics. GR will never give the right answer. > Also, since when is the diagonal of a square of > side length 1 not sqrt(2) ~~ 1.414 ? > > Wrong, wrong, wrong, in so very many ways. My mistake I used spherical coordinates when polar coordinates were required.
From: Phil Bouchard on 15 Dec 2009 21:01 Greg Neill wrote: > > And he uses the Cartesian formula for distances to > do his calculation supposedly in order to avoid using > square roots! What a maroon! My world works with spherical coordinates only.
From: Greg Neill on 15 Dec 2009 21:13 Phil Bouchard wrote: > Greg Neill wrote: > > [..] > >> Sorry, you used a square root so it can't be right, >> can it Phil? Not according to your theory of the >> world. Also, if you thought that irrational >> numbers were scary, using trig functions lands you >> right smack in the land of transcendental numbers... > > This is because you do not understand mathematics. GR will never give > the right answer. Hey, I'm not the one bollixing up trivial math here... > >> Also, since when is the diagonal of a square of >> side length 1 not sqrt(2) ~~ 1.414 ? >> >> Wrong, wrong, wrong, in so very many ways. > > My mistake I used spherical coordinates when polar coordinates were > required. So, in your fantasy world changing coordinate systems changes the size of the thing being measured?
From: Greg Neill on 15 Dec 2009 21:16
Phil Bouchard wrote: > Greg Neill wrote: >> >> And he uses the Cartesian formula for distances to >> do his calculation supposedly in order to avoid using >> square roots! What a maroon! > > My world works with spherical coordinates only. And yet you can't use them to do simple calculations. You don't even understand the tools you choose to use. |