edit: and for the current unfortunately there's only a dead dropbox link.
how to distribute fighters so that your team defeats-in-detail your opponents?
One example, the formula to get the speed of a thing after h meters of free fall must deliver an outcome of m/s. We also know the gravitational acceleration g is given in m/s^2. Then, height h in m must somehow be part of the formula. We can get rid of the squaresecond in the denominator by drawing the square root. But then we also need the height in meters. Also it is clear that both more height as well as a higher acceleration must lead to higher speed. Therefore, the speed must be proportional to sqrt(h x g). In fact it is v = 1/2 sqrt(h x g) but we can derive the important part only from knowing how to calculate with units.
Which is, I think, the successor and quite useful.
If I'm doing really precise stuff, I'm either doing it on a computer already or it's something that's just going to have to be "adjusted" into place when it's done.
In high school my maths teacher said "You'll need to learn all this, you won't always have a calculator!"
My dude, I am walking around with a supercomputer the size of half a slice of bread in my pocket, that probably has a sizeable fraction of the total computing power available in the world when you told me that.
It turns out I don't need either of these things, I just need a good sense of "yeah that feels about right".
stmw•1mo ago
So for example, I posit that the engineers or scientists you might admire from the 1950's didn't learn calculus or linear algebra the way you did.
gpcz•1mo ago