David K Butler (Uni of Adel) on Nostr: Today in the #MLCUoA, a student was distressed his calculator wouldn’t give the ...
Today in the #MLCUoA, a student was distressed his calculator wouldn’t give the exact value of arctan(tan(2π/3)).
Me: You know it’s something times pi, right?
S: Yes.
Me: Can I have your calculator?
S passes it over and I type in “÷π”.
S is extremely impressed.
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