Talk:MRT Organizer

Is this a real thing, or just a thing that was used in the video. If the only purpose of this page was to further explain something I a video, this page should be deleted. Ben6331 - Mayor of Ben Nation and Director of Towns and Cities since 2015 (talk) 17:58, 1 August 2016 (EDT)

It's not a real functioning set of software, just another fictional service that exists in the MRT server. A wiki page on this is suitable (and commonly seen with a lot of other fictional services) but perhaps further clarification that it doesn't exist as functioning software is easily done if confusion is caused. Thomasfyfe (talk) 18:12, 1 August 2016 (EDT)

Correct, it doesn't actually exist outside of that one video. I'm going for an explain-xkcd-like thing here to try to just make a fun article, and give the idea to whoever wants to actually run with it (since I'm a computer science person myself and I suspect a few others might be). chiefbozx • talk • contribs 19:44, 1 August 2016 (EDT)

MRT Organiser Under Development

Hello, folks!
In an attempt to improve my Java coding skills (my programming skills are limited to HTML/CSS/JavaScript, PHP, and an odd bit of Python here and there), I have decided to try and follow Chief's suggestions for what the MRT Organiser would look like. As a few components require distances and roads etcetra, I was wondering if anyone could suggest a way to use co-ordinates to calculate distance, or is there any other method?
Your help would be much appreciated, DJMC2000 (talk) 05:43, 12 November 2016 (EST)

There's a formula appropriately named the distance formula. You can take any two coordinate points and calculate distance. It is:
sqrt((x₂ - x₁)² + (y₂ - y₁)²) where (x₁, y₁) and (x₂, y₂) are coordinate points shadowboarder - every rose has its thorn (talk) 14:38, 12 November 2016 (EST)

Well, this is very awkward. I'm doing that in my Maths class right now...I'll remember that for both the program and my Higher Maths exam. Thanks, DJMC2000 (talk) 17:03, 12 November 2016 (EST)

Isnt that the Pythagoras Theorem? TrainPro (talk) 15:30, 14 November 2016 (ACT - UTC+8)

Looks like a slightly edited version of it. The problem it would bring up is that getting from point A to B is usually not direct. mine_man_

Pythagorean theorem is a² + b² = c², but the distance formula is derived from the Pythagoran theorem. The geometry behind the distance formula involves right triangles and the Pythagoran theorem. shadowboarder - every rose has its thorn (talk) 08:04, 14 November 2016 (EST)