Wolf314159

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The "E" (and similarly the "IE") at the end is a very different pronunciation indicator than an "E" in the middle of the word.

There's no need for the weird hate in your spoiler tag just because you don't understand something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Dog-eared means that a corner got folded down (making a diagonal) on a page as a bookmark. A dog-eared book isn't necessarily beat-up beyond the damage to the corners of pages. Catty-cornered or kitty-cornered is adjacent to something on the diagonal, i.e. not orthogonally next to it like up, down, left, or right. So there is an argument to be made for a loose (coincidental) connection between those ideas, but I don't think they come from the same roots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, dividing a circle into 360 parts, then subdividing those by 60, and further subdividing those by 60 makes so much more sense than just using ratio of a number fundamental to circles themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Because it's a unit circle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

Sine of theta is the ratio of the lengths of the Opposite side over the Hypotenuse (SOH). Cosine of theta is Adjacent over Hypotenuse (CAH). Tangent of theta is Opposite over Adjacent (TOA).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Dr. whip adventure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

EVERYONE that claims to appreciate only fine art is already pretending to be sophisticated.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It is now.

Please?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

“The majority of the town council worked in the mill, and some of them had executive jobs, like supervisors. Any suggestion that there could be some problem with the mill itself, which was supporting them financially, was simply something that there was no economic incentive to even entertain.”

Some things never change. Also, the date of the photo is misleading because the metalworks had been belching out smog for over 30 years by 1948.

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