This is a Geometry problem. Suppose you have five points in a plane, P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5 Let the centroid of Px, Py, Pz = Cxyz Line PxPy=|PxPy| Make the...
In a message dated 6/4/2005 1:51:33 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... It looks like a and b form a fuzzy circle with center at the origin and radius sqrt(7473/433)...
In a message dated 6/4/2005 2:09:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... How do you know they didn't? stevo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
May be we can add to this list Names of people who study things. Archaeologist -Studies the the great Archimedes Psychologist - Studies people who yawn and...
Screw it! I just wrote a long post, went to the files section to check a link and went back to this form just to find what I typed erased. FUCKING YAHOO!!! ...
... and b are ... What is so special about 2.51001600340004 and 3.31001068003362 other than the fact that when you sqaure them, and add them together the...
In a message dated 6/4/2005 9:23:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... And how does one find these numbers without brute force? stevo [Non-text portions of this...
In a message dated 6/4/2005 9:23:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Other pairs (and the difference from b's nearby simple fraction) are: With 2 decimal places...
... This is correct. But it is deeper than you think. For example is there a better approximation of Pi^2+e^2 ~=a/b than the above? ... What is the point of Pi...
Hi, Can anyone please find me a formula to find weather two rectangles overlap? given the co-ordinates of both the triangles(x1,y1,x2,y2). Thanks, Sharath A.V...
In a message dated 6/5/2005 1:20:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... My main way of solving the problems on this list is by brute force, i.e., checking all the...
In a message dated 6/5/2005 1:43:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Better in what sense? Of course there are more accurate rational approximations, including...
... Nothing wrong with this. Brute is one of the great forces of the mind. However you cannot check ALL possibilities of all problems by any method. Cino...
... In Pari we list some best approximations for Pi, g(n) = for(x=1,n,print(bestappr(Pi,10^x))) g(20) 22/7 22/7 355/113 355/113 312689/99532 1146408/364913 ...
In a message dated 6/5/2005 7:34:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... In what sense are these best approximations? I'm familiar with using continued fractions for...
... bestappr(f,k): gives the best approximation to the real f with denominator less or equal to k. The numbers above are orders of magnitued k=10^x So for...
so, why should they care about sqrt(2) + sqrt(3) when 22/7 gives a closer approximation with an easier calculation? ... -- Daniel (Amy is doing a half marathon...
I can relate - I never found math easy and didn't even find it fun until about a year before I earned my B.S. (Gotta thank Chris who pushed me into Modern...
I assume by x1, y1, x2 and y2 you are refering to the line segments corresponding to the height and width of each rectangle - x1 and x2 being segments on the x...
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