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Group: rec.crafts.metalworking · Group Profile
Author: HawkeHawke Date: Jun 15, 2008 22:35
"Ignoramus20633" wrote in message
news:8_udnRmbgqLdx8nVnZ2dnUVZ_qvinZ2d@giganews.com...> On 2008-06-14, cavelamb himself Xearthlink.net> wrote:>> Steve Austin wrote:
>>> Bob La Londe wrote:
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>>>> "Ignoramus27711" wrote in
>>>> message news:EvOdndlJ8KQIvtnVnZ2dnUVZ_qvinZ2d@giganews.com...
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>>>> Do you remember
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>>>> A^2 + B^2 = C^2
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>>>> Pick any two and calculate the third. I used to use it all the time
>>>> in my dad's hardware store to calculate how much guy wire somebody
>>>> needed to support an antenna tower. Same principle, different
>>>> application.
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>>> That's not algebra. That's geometry.
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>> A^2 +B^2 -C^2 = 0
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> looks like algebra
I thought it was Greek.
Hawke
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