Math thing I learned in using rational geometry instead of trigonometry:
Find the area of a triangle whose corners are at (1,1), (4,6), (8,3)
You can use Heron's formula, which would be really messy and have all sorts of square roots that you need to get. You can be way more clever and get the enclosing rectangle and subtract the three right triangle areas. But fundamentally, these areas are rational. You don't need heavy machinery of trigonometry to solve them and there are some really nice formulas you can derive that make problems like this trivial and less prone to using calculus-derived, complicated functions over irrational or transcendental numbers.
An obvious pattern I've seen for many years now:
1. Complain about toxic maximalists
2. Launch an altcoin/Sell out reputation
1 almost always precedes 2 and usually follows 2 as well.
I have no idea if any of you are math nerds, but I had a lot of fun doing this contest last year that's run by a math professor at U of Texas.
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