Scienctific research is essentially a huge open source project, at least it is when it isn't perverted by commercial or "national security" interests. But I guess that's what open source is really modeled on anywaay.
You need sines and cosines for differential equations, time series analysis and spectral analysis, not to mention orbital mechanics. If people are taught to think geometrically, you don't need redifine trig. No revolution here, definitely no insights that haven't been part of every scientists tool kit for the last few generations.
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Scienctific research is essentially a huge open source project, at least it is when it isn't perverted by commercial or "national security" interests. But I guess that's what open source is really modeled on anywaay.
You need sines and cosines for differential equations, time series analysis and spectral analysis, not to mention orbital mechanics. If people are taught to think geometrically, you don't need redifine trig. No revolution here, definitely no insights that haven't been part of every scientists tool kit for the last few generations.