Slime wrote:
>
> The angle between the horizontal and the diagonal of a box with width 1 and
> height .5 is
>
> arctan(.5/1) = 26.56505117
>
> The *sine* of 30 is 1/2. Not the tangent. If the *diagonal* had a length of
> 1, and the box had a height of .5, then the angle would be 30 degrees.
Doh!! Stupid trig functions, I always get them mixed up.. could have
sworn it was sine I wanted.
Thanks a lot.
-Xplo
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