• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    But isn’t it fascinating that NASA used theoretical math that didn’t have an intended use by the mathmaticians that developed it years ago, but it ended up working well with orbital entry calculations?

    There’s a lot of theoretical math that ends up being very real.

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      5 months ago

      Quaternions? They were used as intended - to represent rotation.