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# HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP

It's for a Theater project! I'm not supposed to know these things! Just need 'X'!
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 5:43, archived)
# X is where the treasure is hidden
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 5:44, archived)
# :((((((((
Meh, guesstimating.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 5:49, archived)
# Hahah I just googled
'how to work out how long the sides of a triangle is if you know all three angles and the length of one side.' and this was the first result:
www.mathhelpforum.com/math-help/geometry/41896-right-angle-you-know-all-3-angles-length-not-b-c.html
Look at the first response. What a fucking dick, it's obvious what the guy is asking.

Oh, and it's about 5'7". It was easy to work out. I simply read the other responses you got. I'm surprised you didn't think of that yourself really.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:06, archived)
# haha
and yeah, I'm just an asshole
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:16, archived)
# he specified that he was calling the sides length a, b, c etc.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaanker.
WANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWANKWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKER
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:42, archived)
# 5 1/2 feet roughly
or 6 furlongs, one or the other

5' 7" is a bit closer - did it with drafting, not math so it depends on how accurate you need it - 5 1/2 ft. should do for theatre.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:00, archived)
# bugger.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:02, archived)
# ta, sir
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:03, archived)
# Glad to be of help
(actually, I am just running up my postings to get to 500 sooner (without resorting to thread wasting tricks...) My 6th year is coming up soon and I still feel like a lurker sometimes.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:13, archived)
# Post more stupid things made in MS Paint
can't go wrong there
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:55, archived)
# I don't even have MS Paint!
I would have to emulate MS on my Mac and then run that P.O.S.

I did just fire up my old Powerbook Mac from the mid 1990s - that is almost like running Vista...
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 7:04, archived)
# ha
I use Seashore on my mac. It's a lot better than paint, but has kind of a different charm.

(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 7:13, archived)
# x is about 5' 7.25"
Y is then about 9' 8"
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:02, archived)
# ta :)
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:02, archived)
# ^this
because i got my angle slightly wrong mine is more like 57 or something... anyway it proves his calculations are correct. and mine are the wrongest
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 7:03, archived)
# I just did this
(x = 8 / tan 55, or x = 8 * tan 35) and got the same answer as kebab, who is a MATHEMOTISHUM. We can share the Nobel Prize.
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 8:08, archived)
# mathematicians are not allowed the award of a nobel prize, by decree of nobel himself
if you're under 40 we may get a feilds medal...
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 8:19, archived)
# I'm a chemist.
THE NOBEL IS ALL MINE! AHAHAHAHA!
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 8:40, archived)
# teh codez
$ cat >1.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.1415926
int main(void)
{
 double theta = (35.0 / 180) * PI;
 double X = 8 * tan(theta);
 int Xft = floor(X);
 double Xin = (X - Xft) * 12;
 printf("X = %f feet, or %d feet %f inches\n", X, Xft, Xin);
 return 0;
}
$ gcc 1.c
$ ./a.out
X = 5.601660 feet, or 5 feet 7.219922 inches
$
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:55, archived)
# i think its a 3,4,5 triangle
so if 8 is 4 then y is 10 and x is 6
or sohcahtoah or something.

or umm
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 6:51, archived)
# silly
old hag cracked all her teeth on apples
(, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 9:26, archived)