Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation

[Krzysztof Sobolewski <jezuch@interia.pl>]

Dnia piątek, 10 sierpnia 2012 o 22:04:08 Jonathan Jones napisał(a):

> I literally justs copied this from the Wikipedia page:
> 
> "In a mathematical sense, a circle defined parametrically in a positive
> Cartesian plane<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system#Orientation_and_.22handedness.22>by
> the equations
> *x* = cos *t* and *y* = sin *t* is traced counterclockwise as *t* increases
> in value."
> 
> That's pure math right there.

That's pure *western* math. Your arbitrary choice of one mathematics is not culturally neutral ;)
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