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How much accuracy does a high school trig student need?


11 posted on 09/18/2005 8:53:30 AM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: dr_who_2
How much accuracy does a high school trig student need?

To grasp the concept? Not much.
But I remember being an AA graduate in surveying and having a Structural engineer with a Masters join the company and doing a bunch of mapping calculations using pi as 3.14

Took me weeks to fix everything...

35 posted on 09/18/2005 9:19:02 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Liberal level playing field: If the Islamics win we are their slaves..if we win they are our equals.)
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To: dr_who_2
How much accuracy does a high school trig student need?

I don'k know. My HP-48 gives me sines, cosines, and tangents out to 12 decimal places. Any of your cheap scientific calculators that I've ever seen will give you better than 6 decimal places. I find Dr. Wildberger's remarks about accuracy suspicious.

101 posted on 09/18/2005 10:28:09 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ( "Sic semper tyrannis." (Your dinosaur is ill.))
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To: dr_who_2

6 significant digits


249 posted on 10/20/2010 5:18:19 AM PDT by shotgun
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