#nomograms — Public Fediverse posts

🤓 Ah, #nomograms, because why not take a #math problem and turn it into a #confusing piece of #art that only the most bored #mathematicians can appreciate? 🙄 This riveting #documentation is sure to change your life by teaching you how to… align blocks on a page. Truly #groundbreaking stuff, folks! 🎨📉
https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me #HackerNews #ngated

I am amazed at #nomograms that were used to calculate, in this case, the attenuation of microwaves by rain.

From Boithias L. (1979) 'Propagation des ondes radioélectriques dans l'environment terrestre', Paris: Dunod.

@masukomi @_thegeoff
I think part of the problem might be that problems which allow elegant or simple solutions are rare, or sometimes require abstraction in a way that isn't intuitive before the elegance is revealed.

Some of my favorite elegant, analog solutions are #nomograms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram

Look!
A Chi2 nomogram, so cool:
#statistics #nomograms
It is wonderous that it works-- all my attempts at putting together a similar one for poisson P-values becomes just a graph to read off.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-nomogram-to-calculate-the-p-value-for-a-chi-square-test-statistic-10-To-use-the_fig1_337298810

If you haven't yet been introduced to Nomograms, or don't know that Smith Charts are but one example of a larger family of awesome tools, allow me to make you aware of these awesome things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram

Share your favorite #nomograms