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General Discussion / How's about using radians or degrees to describe tricks in the Wiki?

  1. Roly
    Date: Tue, Dec 15 2009 05:07:22

    Couldn't find where else to post this.

    In many trick tutorials in the Wiki, something like "About 3/4 of the trick is completed," will be in the tutorial for a certain trick. Tricks vary in how many spins or they have or direction. Radians/Degrees can cover this. 2pi or 360 degrees is one turn counter-clockwise. Negative 2pi or negative 360 degrees is one turn counter clockwise. Instead of saying "1/2 through the trick" the tutorial could say, "-pi/-180 degrees into the trick", assuming the trick equals to one clockwise spin.

    I think this would help people understand tricks better without videos. Because how much is 3/4 through a trick really, when the tip of the pen doesn't always start when its at the rightmost position, in other words 0.

    I know a lot of people don't understand radians, but I think angles are more universally known. A unit circle could be posted in the Wiki for those that need it.

  2. Zombo
    Date: Tue, Dec 15 2009 05:13:16

    pen spinning is very approximate

    for example thumbaround used to be called 360 Degrees Normal, and thumbaround reverse is called 360 Degrees Reverse.

    The harmonic is therefore 360 Degrees Harmonic, but in reality a TA harmonic is only maybe 270 degrees.

    does it really matter? no, we still called it a full rotation.

    that's why we don't need to use radian or degrees, this degree of exactitude is simply not needed.

  3. Mats
    Date: Tue, Dec 15 2009 12:04:02

    Plus hardly anyone here knows f-all about radians and pi.

    Plus that's really nerdy and boring.

  4. Deutherius
    Date: Tue, Dec 15 2009 13:17:30

    Not sure about others, but I'm good with revolutions if it's time to count the spins

  5. Glamouraz
    Date: Tue, Dec 15 2009 15:15:41

    Ugh.. radians gonna include loads of decimal places.

  6. k-ryder
    Date: Wed, Dec 16 2009 01:35:18

    QUOTE (Glamouraz @ Dec 15 2009, 11:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Ugh.. radians gonna include loads of decimal places.


    or a lot of pi
    i like pie