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#1 2010-07-17 09:09:38

orangeoz
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I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

what does:
abs mean?
sqrt mean?
sin mean?
cos mean?
tan mean?
asin mean?
acos mean?
atan mean?
in mean?
log mean?
e ^ mean?
10 ^ mean?

Thanks!!!


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#2 2010-07-17 10:15:56

laser100
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

abs-absolute value
sqrt-square root
sin-sine
cos-cosine
tan-?
log-logitheram

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#3 2010-07-17 10:19:43

Sunrise-Moon
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

laser100 wrote:

abs-absolute value
sqrt-square root
sin-sine
cos-cosine
tan-?
log-logitheram

Tan is tangent. Logitheram?  yikes


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#4 2010-07-17 10:25:17

coolstuff
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Well, maybe this post can help you out; it provides some pretty in-depth descriptions on each of he math blocks:

http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic … 94#p392094

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#5 2010-07-17 10:31:28

laser100
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

laser100 wrote:

abs-absolute value
sqrt-square root
sin-sine
cos-cosine
tan-?
log-logitheram

Tan is tangent. Logitheram?  yikes

Don't know how to spell.

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#6 2010-07-17 10:36:16

coolstuff
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

laser100 wrote:

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

laser100 wrote:

abs-absolute value
sqrt-square root
sin-sine
cos-cosine
tan-?
log-logitheram

Tan is tangent. Logitheram?  yikes

Don't know how to spell.

To be perfectly honest, it's actually "logarithm."

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#7 2010-07-17 10:37:58

Harakou
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Registered: 2009-10-11
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

laser100 wrote:

abs-absolute value
sqrt-square root
sin-sine
cos-cosine
tan-?
log-logitheram

Tan is tangent. Logitheram?  yikes

I think he means logarithm.  wink

- e ^ _ = e to the power of _ (e is a bout equal to 2.71828183)
- 10 ^ _ = 10 to the power of _ (Used in scientific notation, eg. 4.56*(10^4) = 45,600
- asin, acos, and atan = arcsine, arccosine, and arctangent, respectively. (Inverses of sine, cosine, and tangent)
- _mod_ = remainder after dividing the two numbers.

Most of these functions are too complicated to be fully explained here; try looking them up online.  smile


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#8 2010-07-17 11:29:39

MasterOfDeception
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Yeah, sine and co. are pretty complicated, here, let me Google that for you.


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#9 2010-07-17 12:27:08

Locomule
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Lemme Loco that for you instead, mwahahahahaha!!

Sin and Cos made easy


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#10 2010-07-17 12:30:10

coolstuff
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Locomule wrote:

Lemme Loco that for you instead, mwahahahahaha!!

Sin and Cos made easy

Thank you so much for posting that! Now I can just redirect people to that topic  smile

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#11 2010-07-17 13:08:01

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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

orangeoz wrote:

what does:
abs mean?

absolute value

sqrt mean?

square root

sin mean?

sine

cos mean?

cosine

tan mean?

tangent

asin mean?

arc sine

acos mean?

arc cosine

atan mean?

arc tangent

in mean?

(it's actually LN)
natural logarithm


log mean?

logarithm

e ^ mean?

e to the power of

10 ^ mean?

10 to the power of


Thanks!!!

Last edited by ScratchReallyROCKS (2010-07-18 09:05:53)


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#12 2010-07-18 08:53:50

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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

Here is something that might help: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Trigonomet … tions.html

Last edited by HD123 (2010-07-18 08:54:12)


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#13 2010-07-18 10:16:05

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Registered: 2009-03-19
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Re: I Don't Know What The Maths Blocks Mean????

The Scratch Wiki page might help.


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