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Do you want some flashbacks to the horrors of trigonometry? Here’s fizz buzz in cosines.

I inadvertently picked an area of software engineering that was pretty much exclusively trig and Fourrier transforms. Even back then I really liked formal systems and proofs a lot but for some reason that’s not where I ended up.

https://susam.net/fizz-buzz-with-cosines.html

Alper Cugun
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