[busterb]

[quote=Undertoad]Partly inspired by the busterb thread.

"Why do I need to study math," everyone always says, "I'm never going to use it."

Yep I was one of thoughs. Years later when a pipe fitter, I did things the hard way. Like draw the sob on floor. In the 80s I when to electronic school. When we tried to learn about phase angles, I learned more shit than ever. Because I could apply this to what I knew. I bought a Sharpe el-506a and the instrutor taught me to use it. Do tricks on job, hell yes. Angles, give them to me.
Boy I showed my ass in class, he would put an angle on blk.board that was simple, like a 45. All the "way" younger classmate would be hitting the calculators. I was the oldest AH there. I knew the answer from my work as pipe fitter.
But now my 506a has passed on, and the new ones have too many tricks for my old brain.
If I remember right, give me the angle and 1 side & I'll tell you the rest of story.
I have a book case full of books, on math, piping engineering, physics. geomerty, trig. Too bad I'm too stupid "maybe uneducated would be a better choice of words here." to understand most.
BECAUSE I was too hard headed to get the basics down while in school! My working years as a welder & pipe fitter would have been so much easer.
Nuff said. Tnxs UT.