Recent content by Simoyd

oh yes, 2 pi I forgot. I guess I know that there are programs that do this. I want to have my own program do this. I'm very confused with how least squares works. I've looked it up on google a bunch but just get confused. Is there maybe a resource that you would suggest?

So my question is, how does this work (hopefully I'm allowed to do hyperlinks): https://www.desmos.com/calculator/zlvrts7mul Given a table of x and y coordinates, how do I find the sin wave of best fit. I need to get f (frequency), a (amplitude), and p (phase) for the function in this form f(x)...

So tidal power plants are a thing. They harvest the energy from water moving around. That energy comes from somewhere, specifically the moon, right? So does harvesting tidal power (very very very) slowly degrade the moon's orbit? Does liquid's existence on Earth deteriorate the orbit to begin...