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[theweaselking]

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Current computer models suggest that the Arctic will be entirely ice-free during summer by the year 2070. This is assuming purely ice-melt, not including that thin ice breaks up mechanically in the ocean and floats south, possibly causing the melt to go faster than that.

New South Wales mathematician rewrites trigonometry. - I am made extremely skeptical by the title of his book, and the article has no details, but the idea is potentially interesting. PDF samples here. I haven't read 'em yet.

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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I want to see the proof that it's logically co-extensive with regular trignometry.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

"For the past two thousand years we have relied on the false assumptions that distance is the best way to measure the separation of two points, and that angle is the best way to measure the separation of two lines.

Now, for pure mathematics, his model may be oh so useful. For solving problems in the form of "if my bicycle seat tube is at an angle of 74 degrees and 55 cm long, how high is it"? I doubt it.