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9 Aug 2024 11:26:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Newbie, looking to make Macro.  
From: Thomas Lake
Date: 1 Aug 2000 16:03:30
Message: <39872DFE.D4B41424@home.com>
Thanks for the encouragement:-)

Eric Freeman wrote:

> "Thomas Lake" <tla### [at] homecom> wrote in message
> news:39860A0A.6AD0C1CB@home.com...
> >
> > I didn't say NO math, all I meant was the simplest
> > method you can think of. I am 18 after all and don't
> > yet know even simple trig or calculus or university
> > level math:-(
>
> While higher-level math will be required, don't let this discourage you...
> it would be a fun way to learn the math (after all, who cares about a train
> leaving Chicago just as a train leaves New York?).  A complete discussion
> (or tutorial) of the math involved in collision detection would take up too
> much room here, but a good library (university library) will have everything
> you need to get started.  Good luck and keep us posted.
>
> Eric
> --------------------
> http://www.datasync.com/~ericfree
> --------------------
> "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."
> - Erwin Schrodinger talking about Quantum Mechanics.

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