They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over.

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"They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over." This quote describes the intense amount of work that goes into developing a new product. The engineering team behind the product was given a budget of $50,000. They needed to work fast to get the product out before their deadline. The problem was that they didn't have enough people to do all of the work. So the engineering team turned their desks into a trigonometric war room and started working overtime in order to get the product done.

Source: Hidden Figures: The American Dream And The Untold Story Of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race

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