Thread: Math and Me.
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Old 11-01-2009, 01:18 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ar81 View Post
Unfortunately people think math is

x = -1/2gt**2 + Vot + xo

while indeed this formula is about a basketball game, how do you score...
or it could be about baseball...
it is about the logic to understand WHY and not HOW.

In my opinion that's the beauty of the space sim.
You do not care about the complex formulas, you care about solving a problem, about understanding what you are doing.

Math is more problem solving that just calculation.
Life is too.
You just proved to me that I still do not understand math.. as I did not understand anything that you said
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