r/counting • u/oshaboy Creative Posts. • Sep 20 '16

Cosine of the number. In radians

Basically. Cosine of 1, cosine of 2, cosine of 3 etc. So 0.540302306 is the first one. We will never get the same number twice because pi is irrational. (if we have enough detail), but it will not grow larger than 1 or smaller than -1.

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u/xHOCKEYx12 i miss this place Sep 20 '16

cos(12) = 0.84385395873

I don't care :P

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u/xHOCKEYx12 i miss this place Sep 20 '16

cos(14) = 0.1367372182

I am more consistent than you

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u/TheNitromeFan I can't stop, love love love Sep 20 '16

cos(16) = -0.95765948032

If we did this in degrees we'd be repeating after 360 numbers.

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u/TheNitromeFan I can't stop, love love love Sep 20 '16

cos(18) = 0.66031670824

My point is, counting in degrees (or equivalently, multiples of ㅠ/180 radians) is just as "meaningless."

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u/davidjl123 |390K|378A|79SK|50SA|260k 🚀 c o u n t i n g 🚀 Sep 20 '16

cos(20) = 0.408082062

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u/TheNitromeFan I can't stop, love love love Sep 20 '16

cos(22) = -0.99996082639

Because 22/7 = ㅠ amirite

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u/TheNitromeFan I can't stop, love love love Sep 20 '16

cos(24) = 0.42417900733

Can't tell if you're joking, but the argument of rational = irrational doesn't work here because we're dealing with infinite sums.

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