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#1 2010-04-08 11:59:09

InnerPivotman
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Registered: 2010-04-01
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Sqrt, Abs, Sin, etc...

I dont really get the Sqrt, Abs, Sin and other things that the last box in the operators file is.  what do all of those abs, sqrt, and In mean?

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#2 2010-04-08 13:34:02

hmnwilson
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Registered: 2007-07-04
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Re: Sqrt, Abs, Sin, etc...

Sqrt finds the square root of the number in the box. Abs means absolute number, which basically finds the number's distance from zero, meaning it turns a negative number to a positive but not the other way around.

The rest is a lot more complicated to explain. If you haven't started learning trigonometry in school yet, you'll have trouble understanding it all. For more info, look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry


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