In article <396### [at] global2000net>, Andrea Ryan 
<ary### [at] global2000net> wrote:

> Does the formula give the "hypotenuse" of a shape that looks like a 
> doorstop or is it a different shape?

It really just gives the hypotenuse of a 3D triangle...I sometimes think 
of it as the line between the front-left-bottom corner and the 
back-right-top corner of an axis-aligned box.

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