Let me tell you, my friends, of the story of me and this cursed tumbr post. I am enraged and horrified at the depths to which you have managed to plunge me, oh demons of intellectual curiosity.
Above you have the Post. Heinous as it is. There it stands. And upon reading the first half of its damnéd text, I thought to myself, “it’s not a linear continuum, it’s a sine wave.”
Then I continued to read the thrice-bedeviled second passage, I said, “This is a shifted sine, or perhaps a cosine, methinks.”
At which point I found myself in Excel. With a spreadsheet. I don’t actually remember opening the spreadsheet, but I blame this upon the spell wrought by the discourse above. I dutifully and thoroughly considered the items, and several new ones, to the point of sketching a few of their designs. That calamitous and hellish paper has since been burned over the kitchen sink, as I found I could not look at it without getting sucked back into the mire of this hellish, devil-spawned post.
Here, however, are the final results of my gruesomely insatiable, rigorous analysis.
A table was all well and good but I found myself wondering if it were, indeed, a sine wave, and if so, what sort? And this led, my dear, misguided friends, to a graph.
It is a sine wave, I said, but not one wave, no, it is the addition of several sine waves, and after a three-hour session with the Goddess Desmos and an appeal to the Paragon of Mathematic Wisdom (commonly referred to as @deadhawke ), the closest we got to the mysterious wave was funniness factor = 2sin(what foot is on) + sin(0.5(what foot is on)).
If anyone is able to find a closer estimate, they are free to read this tome of sacred text:
http://www.emptyloop.com/technotes/A%20tutorial%20on%20trigonometric%20curve%20fitting.pdf
This very text, thanks be to Einstein, Curie, Tesla, and Hawking, was what served to break me from the spell of This Accursed, Most Evil Post, and brought me back to sanity with a cry of “WHY AM I ANALYSING THE ODDNESS OF MISPLACED FEET???”
And with that, my friends, I go to bed.
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