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16 Aug 2024 02:34:57 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stupid math error  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 1 Apr 2002 23:32:22
Message: <3CA934B1.FC270467@unforgettable.com>
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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