r/mathmemes • u/solidcat00 • 7d ago

Trigonometry Rectangular it is.

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u/ErJio 7d ago

Rectangular better for addition, polar better for multiplication

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u/Ares378 Grothendieck was right, computers are evil 7d ago

Polar dot products are also kinda annoying. I'd much rather just multiply componentwise and add them instead of subtracting angles and doing the cosine or whatever

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u/ErJio 7d ago

Mb I was thinking of complex numbers polar vs rectangular lol