What level math is cantr at?

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What level math is cantr at?

Postby creepyguyinblack » Sat May 28, 2005 12:46 am

I am curious because thanks to a trig class I'm taking I thought of a good way to calculate the precise angle needed to go straight from one point to another even if the original trip used several turns and speeds. Would this be any sort of violation for a nautically minded character to use this sort of information?
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Postby Schme » Sat May 28, 2005 12:52 am

I shouldn't think so. Someone has to invent the math. Might aswell be someone who would actually have a reason too.

So, I don't think it would be a problem, personally.
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Postby Surly » Sat May 28, 2005 1:12 am

Um... I've already used maths to calculate various nautical trips.

So you won't be the first... :wink:
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Postby nitefyre » Sat May 28, 2005 1:30 am

The Surly Cantrian wrote:Um... I've already used maths to calculate various nautical trips.

So you won't be the first... :wink:
Aye, matey, same here. And have had them published, too. Except I used a protractor/ruler/pencil/graphpaper, instead of sine/cosine/tangent/etc/Ti-83+.
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Re: What level math is cantr at?

Postby rklenseth » Sat May 28, 2005 2:30 am

creepyguyinblack wrote:I am curious because thanks to a trig class I'm taking I thought of a good way to calculate the precise angle needed to go straight from one point to another even if the original trip used several turns and speeds. Would this be any sort of violation for a nautically minded character to use this sort of information?


I would say it is fine. How do you think math originated on Earth? Someone one day just thought it up. :wink:
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Re: What level math is cantr at?

Postby TatteredShoeLace » Sat May 28, 2005 3:13 am

Serenity wrote: How do you think math originated on Earth? Someone one day just thought it up. :wink:


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Postby swymir » Sat May 28, 2005 4:42 am

Yeah trig has alwyas been very good for Cantr sailing. Especially since the angles are already coverted from bearings for you.
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Postby Antichrist_Online » Sat May 28, 2005 11:19 am

I've started preparing simple Calc for when we get the free roam, and am using velocity/time graphs with one character. The only thing is we don't have acceleration yet so the gradients are useless, but the area and my own measure scale will become useful soon.
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