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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 280640, member: 29"]Those bowling pins are VORs, not vectors. They send specific radio signals for navigation - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Vectors are a mathematical term for a combination of direction and distance. It's about relative position. Some of that n-space pure maths can get painful. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think it's trig, af. I've a feeling it's related to calculus: I'm dragging this out of long lost memory, but there's something called vector calculus of spheres. It's around calculating vectors in a spherical environment using calculus, but I've forgotten how you do it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 280640, member: 29"]Those bowling pins are VORs, not vectors. They send specific radio signals for navigation - [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range[/URL] Vectors are a mathematical term for a combination of direction and distance. It's about relative position. Some of that n-space pure maths can get painful. I don't think it's trig, af. I've a feeling it's related to calculus: I'm dragging this out of long lost memory, but there's something called vector calculus of spheres. It's around calculating vectors in a spherical environment using calculus, but I've forgotten how you do it.[/QUOTE]
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