A new question of the week We haven’t done much with vectors here, though there have been many problems of that sort lately. Let’s look at a recent question that touches on the basics, yet is by no means a simple problem.
(Archive Question of the Week) An interesting question that has been referred to many times since it was written in 1999 deals with averaging angles. At first the question seems trivial; then almost impossible; and then we end up with a rather simple formula that is totally unlike what we started with. And further applications …