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What's a Tankie? (lemmy.world)

I keep hearing the term in political discourse, and rather than googling it, I'm asking the people who know better than Google.

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[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago

People fed up with the the (false) sin/cos dichotomy and want to get people to use tan more often.

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

the (false) sin/cos dichotomy

but... but.... if sin/cos is false, that is literally tan ! (yes, I was frequently bullied in high school, why do you ask?)

[-] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Tan is the tao out of which the sin and cos arise

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago

I don't mind those people, I just wish they wouldn't go off on tangentially related subjects.

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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