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Arctangent and crater creator?

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  • 提问者网友:wodetian
  • 2021-07-18 13:14

I'm actually amazed this isn't up yet. I guess it belongs here because it is a quote.

From "Reckoner": Garcia says, "A 10-letter-word for crater creator? Arctangent," which is apparently the correct answer. I've looked all over, and I feel really dumb because I don't get it. According to http://www.arctangent.net an arctangent is " used to calculate the angles of a right triangle. It works opposite of the tangent function." How does that equate to crater creator? I'm usually a great nerd, but this stumps me. Please, can a math major help me?

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  • 五星知识达人网友:走死在岁月里
  • 2021-07-18 14:15
Here are my takes on Arctangent:

ARCtangent - according to EE times, is an-A4 user-customizable 32-bit processor. Eureka said it developed plug-in intellectual-property modules specifically for the ARCtangent to connect to memory devices and the PCI bus. Makes sense for Garcia to know something about computers that Reid wouldn't - although I don't know how it creates craters??

More likely it has to do with Jurij (Georg) Vega, Slovenian mathematician, who not only calculated pi to 126 (correct) places, but also produced seven figure logarithm tables which were "devised for high precision artillery calculations, but soon their exactness and reliability were also appreciated for civil applications." (vega stamp site) His calculations include arctangents. Don't even ask me to explain how the arctangent functions work to calculate crater size, but, since Vega had a moon crater named for him, and appears on Slovenian money with the moon and calculations, as well as on a stamp, I'm guessing this is what the show was going for. A bit esoteric, a bit of a stretch to say that arctangents "created" the crater, but then again, we're talking crossword puzzle clues. Vega also, apparently had a meteor named after him.

Any other ideas?
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