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Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> See the attached image.
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> 1) Calculate the area of the shaded part.
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> 2) Take the integral part of the result, negate it, and use it as
> longitude coordinates, in degrees. Take the two first digits after the
> decimal point of the area and use them as latitude coordinates in
> degrees. (Mathematically speaking, if the area is A, then latitude =
> floor((A - floor(A))*100) degrees.)
>
> 3) These coordinates will point to a state in the US. Y = the year
> when the capital city of this state was founded.
>
> 4) Take Y modulo 100 (iow. the last two digits) and substitute the
> 60.3 in the picture with this value.
>
> 5) The answer to the problem is the height h using this modified
> value, with at least 5 decimals of accuracy (after the decimal point).
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