Cancer Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 ... if closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 If not closed and ongoing, it's a helix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Ooo! Oooh! Cylindrical coordinates!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Oh, lookit you go, with your tangents and radians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 59 minutes ago, Cancer said: Ooo! Oooh! Cylindrical coordinates!! Like Star Trek? (It seems to me that I once read that Star Trek used cylindrical coordinates....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 0,0,0,0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Ugh. More dimensions than I want to operate in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 0,0,0^2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 How original! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Sarcasm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Mathematically accurate! The coordinates of the origin in the Cartesian system is 0, 0, 0. Hence, 'original'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Oh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Three of them, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 6, 2017 Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 That's what I was gonna say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 6, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2017 Ah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 Oo ah ah Rama llama ding dong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 Ooh ooh ah ah Ooh ooh ah ah I'm going slightly mad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 Never go full mad. Unless it's mad with power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 I was thinking the other day about ordinary words that are free of jargon but have a special jargon meaning for those in the know. In philosophy, motion refers to "change" in the context of Aristotle. Upthread Pariah gave "ordinary" in the context of mathematics/ Cartesianism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 Origin, you mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 I mean what ? Not understanding you LM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 There's an old joke about the way to tell a plumber from a chemist: Ask them to pronounce the word 'unionized'. The plumber will pronounce it 'union-ized'. The chemist will pronounce it 'un-ionized'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 Lots of words are jargon words, in one jargon or another. "Ordinary" in math also goes with "differential equation" (as opposed to "partial" D.E.'s). In physics, energy, mass, charge, momentum, force, are all words like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 The word 'theory' means something quite different in science than it does in mundane usage. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 7, 2017 Report Share Posted December 7, 2017 22 hours ago, Bazza said: 0,0,0,0 22 hours ago, Pariah said: Ugh. More dimensions than I want to operate in. Minkowski space-time! Yeah, complicated, but at times necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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