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8 Sep 2024 05:14:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A small puzzle  
From: Arttu Voutilainen
Date: 21 May 2008 09:55:57
Message: <483429ed$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> Then we have -340 K = 3,400 = 4.905 K^2, which I still don't know how 
>>> to solve.
>>
>>   That's not what you had. You had this:
>>
>> -340 K + 3,400 = 4.905 K^2
> 
> Yeah, a simple typo.
> 
>> which is equivalent to
>>
>> 4.905 K^2 + 340 K + 3400 = 0
> 
> Mmm, I hadn't realised that.
> 
> [But... are the signs correct?]
> 

Nope. At least if your previous ones were correct.


-340 K + 3,400 = 4.905 K^2    |-4.905K^2

-4.905K^2 - 340K + 3,400 = 0


-- Arttu Voutilainen


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