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| Title: | Mathematics at DEC |
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| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP |
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| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2083 |
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1216.0. "Math Puzzle from USENET" by AITG::DERAMO (Dan D'Eramo is on vacation. :-)) Sat Apr 07 1990 22:50
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From: rp@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Richard Pavelle)
Newsgroups: sci.math,rec.puzzles
Subject: Trig problem
Keywords: Has a surprising answer (not given)
Message-ID: <1784@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 90 20:01:16 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
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Given the rectangle acdg, two cuts are made of length ef and length ab.
Given ab, ac, de, ef and the angle aeb find cd. The complexity of the
answer surprised me. Perhaps it will surprise you too. --
Richard Pavelle UUCP: ...ll-xn!rp
ARPANET: rp@XN.LL.MIT.EDU
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| 1216.1 | | 4GL::GILBERT | Ownership Obligates | Wed Apr 11 1990 15:47 | 56 |
| 1216.2 | the problem actually allows two values for X in general | CSSE::NEILSEN | I used to be PULSAR::WALLY | Wed Apr 11 1990 18:37 | 24
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