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Jun 30, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 38 Replies

What you are really asking (but may not realise) is why do mathematicians measure an angle in radians. If you draw two straught lines from the origin of a circle to its edge, then the angle (in radians) between the lines is the arc length (length of the part of the circle circumference between the two lines) divided by the radius. So if a single line rotates one complete revolution it rotates 2.PI radians.

One important thing to note is that if an angle x is measured in radians then the limit of sin(x)/x as x goes to 0 is 1. This leads to the derivative (wrt x) of sin(x) being equal to cos(x). *This is not true is x is not specified in radians*. (It also leads to simple series expansions of the trigonometric fuctions, to eulers formula etc.)

When performing calculus it is thus easiest to do so if angles are measured in radians. For a signal of frequency f it's corresponding phasor representation will rotate by 2.PI.f.t radians in an interval t. This is where the 2.PI comes from in your calculations.

For example for your inductor L the voltage across it and the current through it are related by e=L.di/dt. If the current i=I.sin(wt) (w in rad/s) then e=wLI.cos(wt). Thus the impedance e/i is wL cos(wt)/sin(wt) ie. it has a magnitude of wL (or 2.PI.f.L )and a phase angle of PI/2. And so forth.

Another piece of the jigsaw. Many thanks indeed for that contribution.

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Why were you at the procession? Why did you not stay at home or away from the procession? Or was it that the procession passed your home?

Why would that have been obvious to them?

You could find that they remember you for that, and they may or may not ever tell you so.

What does god have to do with such a procession?

I've only been to SF for a 1 week visit but I can think of no reason why I wouldn't live there if I had sufficient income and a place to live (which seems unlikely).

From what John has said it sounds like SF is a very tolerant place which would be a plus with me.

For most of human history, people didn't travel or marry much beyond walking distance of their birthplace. Now, all over the world, some self-selected people leave home and move to big cities, university and tech and business centers.

Those places are pretty diverse so tolerant of differences.

It was an 8 minute walk to the procession and I'd never seen one before. I'd expected something a bit more dignified.

I can't disguise my expression.

They'd be most grateful. That display was not fit for children to witness.

Leviticus, I believe. 'Man shall not lay with man nor woman lay with woman' IIRC.

If you're gay, that's fine by me. What I cannot understand is why these processions are purposely - it seems to me - so outrageously offensive to normal people. They don't have to be. Why are they? Why do these people go out of their way to stultify their own cause? It makes no sense to me at all. I can't possibly celebrate behaviour like that.

If they want to celebrate their other-ness, and get mostly nekkid and freeze in the process, I and you can watch or not. The Folsum Fetish Street Fair is fun. "Normal" is very relative.

I used to live 2 blocks from Castro street, the main gay drag, just before AIDS hit. It was outrageously wild, but it was fun and the food was good. I met my wife in a gay bar. There is an upside to being the only staight single male in the room.

Now the Castro is over-run with breeders pushing baby buggies, and the gays are tolerant.

Part of our religious and (former) legal condemnation of extra-marital and gay sex probably evolved to preventing transmitting diseases.

So you made a deliberate decision to attend.

I don't think they would have cared.

How do you know this? Are they allowed to think for themselves?

Oh dear.

LOL when did I give any indication of my sexuality? LOL Ok maybe you meant 'you' in the plural sense but still LOL

What distinguishes a normal person from one who is not normal?

You don't have to deliberately attend either.

Ah someone making logical sense instead of expecting an irrelevant law, written 2000 years or so before English even existed, to be in any way relevant to here and now. That's refreshing.

The Ten Commandments still make sense. They work.

Social evolution probably becomes genetic evolution. They go together.

One thing I have noted about gay guys is that they tend to be promiscuous, wildly so, even married ones. My theory is that women have some chemicals that are deeply satisfying and make us fall asleep. The first AIDS cases here were among people who had had something like 3000 sexual partners. The mind boggles.

This is a great book:

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Randy wrote it as he was dying of AIDS.

Yeah. A college roommate became a doctor, and while still in school attended a lecture presenting early reports, which mentioned men who had about 1000 partners in a year.

Which stunned me - that would be an average of three a day for each and every day of the year. How does one do this physically? Well, they managed.

I think that they noticed that hemophiliacs were also being hit, but not the women. This being before AIDS transitioned to the general population.

Joe Gwinn

I don't recall all of them but some such as thou shalt not kill/steal are clearly fine.

I think the seven commandments are more interesting but that's a bit off topic.

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"jones+of+the+manor+farm"anger+pdfFor anyone who hasn't read it.

I hadn't noticed myself but I have limited knowledge of such matters and haven't done any research into it.

What makes you think that they outrageously offensive to normal people? Are you making the obvious mistake of thinking that you are normal?

"Stultify"?

It makes no sense to me at all. I can't possibly celebrate behavior like that.

You aren't expected to. You might be expected to realise that there are different strokes for different folks, and that this is the behavior that they want to celebrate. You own bizarre sources of gratification may get in the way of that.

On 7/9/24 01:04, john larkin wrote: [...]

The first three are just job protection. The last six can be summarized as "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you." There. Just two will suffice.

Jeroen Belleman

I think that the commandments were the first steps of the Enlightment, which has a way to go still.

Islam and communism are steps in the wrong direction.

"Don't do to others" has its own problems. For starters, individuals will have different opinions about what's OK. Rape and bank robbery should be illegal for everyone.

Something abourt e to the power of sqrt(-1) times theta

Well this is something else that's new to me. I only just encountered it last month when reading Tom Lee's book 'Planar Microwave Engineering' in which he uses some very unfamiliar (to me) mathematics. I was going to post a question about it here in fact. Mebe I'll get around to it if time permits...

I only went out of curiosity. Never seen one before. And I'll never watch another one. A re-enactment of a Bacchanalian orgie is not the kind of entertainment I like to see and is 100% NOT suitable for children. Anyone who takes a child to see an event like that needs to have the child taken away and fostered to a loving heterosexual couple who will bring it up properly.

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Looks pretty tame to me compared with some of the image searches I could have done.

Children will pick up plenty of things you may not want them to know or may not think they know. And in general they will only take in what they are ready to understand.

Phill H has covered what I was thinking of in extensive detail, so I will not waste your time with my inferior take on the same angle.

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