On 12/01/2013 09:57 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:

[snip]

Today's young engineers hardly do manual calculations. They just tap the
keys on computer. When I showed my son old slide ruler i used to use,
the look on his face....He is a consulting engineer in civil.

I remember the first class I had in trigonometry. Most of the time, the
teacher was going around helping students find the (sin / cos / tan)
keys on their calculators. There was nothing said about what
trigonometry is, or why you'd want to use it (other than passing that test).

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Mark Lloyd
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