6 hexagons are red, one blue, arranged in a honeycomb pattern, where 1 hexagon is surrounded by 6 others

Did you know a Hexagon can be constructed using the angle pi/3 a lot of times? This is because a hexagon is made of 6 triangles with equal side length - the radius of the hexagon. The inner angles of these triangles is pi/3. Using this information and the trigonometric functions sin and cos can be used to draw such a picture.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      You’re right. But as the other commenter suggested, if you’re on an embedded system or otherwise limited system, or even using another language missing certain constants and/or functions, it’s a good thing to know.

      You could also just pull the constant from memory, assuming you have the brain memory space that I apparently have…

      3.1415926535897932384646233832795020841971693993751

    • Riskable@programming.dev
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      4 days ago

      If you’re using an embedded version of Python that’s missing the math module. Because somebody couldn’t be bothered to fix the floating point math in C for platforms that don’t have an FPU 🤷