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  Re: "Simple" math question  
From: Orchid Win7 v1
Date: 4 Aug 2013 04:31:01
Message: <51fe1145$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/08/2013 04:50 AM, Bald Eagle wrote:
>
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Circle-CircleIntersection.html
>
> I'm having a hard time getting from 7 to 8.

Sqrt(k / 4 d^2) = Sqrt(k) / Sqrt(4 d^2).

Sqrt(4 d^2) = Sqrt(4) Sqrt(d^2) = 2 d.

2 * Sqrt(k) / 2 d = Sqrt(k) / d = (1/d) Sqrt(k).

Simples.

[He says after spending 20 minutes figuring it out himself...]


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