Questions tagged [trigonometry]
For challenges where trigonometry plays an important role.
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Draw a regular polygon
The goal of this code golf is to draw a regular polygon (one with equal side lengths) given the number of sides and radius (distance from center to vertex).
The number of sides and the radius can be ...
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Regular Polygrams
Given the number of vertices n ≥ 3 and the "step size" 1 ≤ m < n/2 (indicating the distance between two connected vertices), ...
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Make a Surfin' Word
Your goal is to map a piece of text to a sine curve of the form:
a sin ( mx - b )
Where a and m are non-zero rational numbers, b is a rational number, and the calculations are in radians.
It doesn't ...
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A single pixel moving in a circular path
This is a graphical output challenge where the task is to give the shortest code per language.
Task
Your code should plot a single purple pixel (hex value #800080 or
rgb(128, 0, 128)), moving ...
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Draw a graph of \$y=(-n)^x\$
Challenge
Given an input of an integer, \$n\$ (where \$0<n<50\$), output the graph of \$y=\mathrm{Re}((-n)^x)\$ from \$x = -3\$ to \$x = 3\$ inclusive.
Where \$\mathrm{Re}(p)\$ is the real part ...
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Are my triangles similar?
Given (in any structure; flat list, two lists of lists, a tuple of matrices, a 3D array, complex numbers,…) the coordinates for two non-degenerate triangles ...
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Distance between two points on the Moon
Given latitude/longitude of two points on the Moon (lat1, lon1) and (lat2, lon2), compute the distance between the two points in ...
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Help me with trigonometry!
Thank you guys so much for your help with calculus. Now I need some help with my upcoming trigonometry test.
On the test, I'll need to simplify expressions. I’ll be given input like ...
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Compute the Discrete Cosine Transform
Implement the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). This may implemented as either a function or a program and the sequence can be given as either an argument or using standard input. Your program must be ...
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