Haha to all you that think trig is hard. You're going to have bunches of fun when you get to calculus.
They're so different it's kind of absurd to compare them by difficulty.
The issue I have with math is that it's taught in a way where kids don't learn how to actually use it. A great example is logarithms, you essentially only use them to solve the problems presented to you by the teacher and then you're done with them. You're not taught how fantastic of a tool they are for dealing with large numbers of the same base. Almost any kid that graduates from highschool can solve the question
log(2x) = 2 to
x = 50 but virtually none of them know why you'd ever need to do something like that in practice.
The same goes for trig, it's great that you can figure out that
α=87° β=43° a=5 means that
α=87° β=43° γ=50° a=5 b=7.51 c=8.44 but, again, almost none of them can think of a practical use example for that.
I'm grateful that I'm a programmer because I've had to figure that stuff out for myself, much of it before it was taught to me in school, and then it comes into focus and suddenly it makes sense why they'd teach that. The thing is, no kid is going to remember to use the law of sines twenty years after highschool when suddenly he has the angles and distances between object A and B and B and C and now needs to figure out the angle and distance between A and C.
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