Now pretend I said octagon.
That's a horse of a different, er, shape.
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She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.
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Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DXMachina - Jun 10, 2005 10:48:51 am PDT #1134 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Emily - Jun 10, 2005 10:49:11 am PDT #1135 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Okay, regardless of how you figure the area of the octagon and thus x (which I think I actually had done okay), the question is this -- the regular octagon with sides of length x is created by cutting the corners off a square with sides of length one centimeter. What formula (of the form ax*x + bx + c = 0) do you use to find x?
Connie Neil - Jun 10, 2005 10:49:37 am PDT #1136 of 10001
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Until I found out it's a franchise and all contrived.
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brenda m - Jun 10, 2005 10:51:37 am PDT #1137 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hey Gus.
Why are people suddenly talking in code? It's confuuusing.
I want a lemon ice now. Or chocolate. In a paper cup from the window of a pizza place. In short, I want to go back to being six, when this was a major part of my summer routine.
Emily - Jun 10, 2005 10:52:15 am PDT #1138 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh brenda, you're killing me here. Lemon ice. Want.
Kathy A - Jun 10, 2005 10:55:49 am PDT #1139 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Frozen custard (brenda knows the joys of Kopps, I'm sure!). There's a place down the street from my apartment that's supposed to have good custard, and I've been very good about avoiding it so far. I'm thinking I might cave in this weekend.
Vortex - Jun 10, 2005 10:55:54 am PDT #1140 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Humming softly, looking around, waiting for the math talk to end
DXMachina - Jun 10, 2005 10:59:14 am PDT #1141 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What formula (of the form ax*x + bx + c = 0) do you use to find x?
If the side of the cube is 1, then it's
0 = (1 + sqrt(2)) x - 1
-t - Jun 10, 2005 11:01:52 am PDT #1142 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Octagon. Okay. Well, that's 8 isosceles triangles with a 45 - 67.5 -67.5 angles and a side of length x opposite the 45. Such a triangle will have a height of x/(2tan(pi/8)) and area x^2/(4tan(pi/8)), so the octagon would be of area 2(x^2)/tan(pi/8), hmm. I can't remember how to calculate tan(theta/2). Blech.
Emily - Jun 10, 2005 11:02:32 am PDT #1143 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Humming softly, looking around, waiting for the math talk to end
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