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2 Oct 2024 06:23:29 EDT (-0400)
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From: David Fontaine
Date: 7 Jul 2000 14:43:03
Message: <39662311.4FB6DFFD@faricy.net>
Of course, it really should be written as asin(sqrt(3)/3)...

Jamie Davison wrote:

> Nope, I came to it through Rotate <45.0, 0.0, atan(1/sqrt(2))>  :)
>
> Or you could have used Rotate <45.0, 0.0, acos(sqrt(2)/sqrt(3))  But
> that's just silly.
>
> They all give you the same result, so who cares <grin>
>
> Using the (admittedly crap) windows calculator, the following came out of
> the two simpler methods:
>
> asin(1/sqrt(3)) = 35.2643896827546543153770003300188
> atan(1/sqrt(2)) = 35.2643896827546543153770003300188
>
> Is that perfect enough?  Or do you require anally retentive levels of
> precision?  ;)

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