• have you ever played a video game where you’re throwing a grenade and the UI shows you where the grenade will land?

    Just trying to think of the most basic uses of trig that would occur.

    • @lorty@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      Without learning about how the trigonometric relationships of a throw relate to the physics of it, I don’t think a person that sees no value in knowing trig, sin and cos would change their mind.