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[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Except that velocity includes a direction component while neither distance nor time do. This would be a speedraptor.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Displacemenraptor/timeraptor

Actually that's still wrong.

dDisplacemenraptor/dTime. Otherwise you cancel out the raptors.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or you could go with:

(Distanceraptor/ Timeraptor) * Vectoreraptor

The d is only needed if it is changing.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Why *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?

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 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

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Ah my bad, I wanted to write "Distanceraptor" as in the post.
Forgot that by the time I got to actually writing it.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah we need a directionraptor

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