tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8906477302630880682.post-61649492484398421042007-10-23T16:43:00.000-05:002007-10-29T16:16:58.651-05:00I was always told that math was going to be important after school, but I never really realized that I would be using math for much of anything until I joined the Navy.<br /><br />As an OS my job is to navigate, so we do tons of math. One of the more important things I do with math is finding the position of the ship. If shipboard electronic devices fail and we have no other way to figure out our position we have to use math operations to compute the speed of the ship and the distance traveled in a certain amount of time in order to figure out our position. One little mistake could cause the ship to go into a dangerous area.<br /><br />Math is also used when trying to find the heading of the ship, the heading of other ships, fixing compasses and many other things. So, even if you don’t like math, or if you think “hey I am never going to need this in real life” think again, you never know where your life will take you.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8906477302630880682-6164949248439842104?l=navygeek.blogspot.com'/></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268614109743582973noreply@blogger.com2