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minus-squareWhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 days agoExcept that velocity includes a direction component while neither distance nor time do. This would be a speedraptor.
minus-squareSergio@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·4 days agoThe equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoDisplacemenraptor/timeraptor Actually that’s still wrong. dDisplacemenraptor/dTime. Otherwise you cancel out the raptors.
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoOr you could go with: (Distanceraptor/ Timeraptor) * Vectoreraptor The d is only needed if it is changing.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWhy *vector? Displacement is already a vector; distance being a scalar. The d is only needed if it is changing. Ah, is this a constant speed raptor?
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days ago Ah, is this a constant speed raptor? If you look at it for a small enough amount of time, that is (so d can be implicit) Or you can get Average Velociraptor
minus-squareulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAh my bad, I wanted to write “Distanceraptor” as in the post. Forgot that by the time I got to actually writing it.
minus-squarePulptastic@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 days agoYeah we need a directionraptor
Except that velocity includes a direction component while neither distance nor time do. This would be a speedraptor.
The equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.
Displacemenraptor/timeraptor
Actually that’s still wrong.
dDisplacemenraptor/dTime. Otherwise you cancel out the raptors.
Or you could go with:
The d is only needed if it is changing.
Why *vector? Displacement is already a vector; distance being a scalar.
Ah, is this a constant speed raptor?
If you look at it for a small enough amount of time, that is (so d can be implicit)
Or you can get Average Velociraptor
Ah my bad, I wanted to write “Distanceraptor” as in the post.
Forgot that by the time I got to actually writing it.
Yeah we need a directionraptor