14 Jan 10, 9:30 PM
mornington_crescent
UK(CB), 3 yrs
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Sorry! Crossposted...
Janus_x wrote:
C is where it gets tricky without pictures and is calculated from the length between tangent points. This is where it is important to note that the tangent point is NOT vertically above the centre point of the end circle. This offset is = sin(15) x D or 0.2588D
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No, the offset is 0.5Dtan(th/2) ~ Also known as catherine_winkworth
Edited 14 Jan 10, 9:31 PM by mornington_crescent
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14 Jan 10, 11:55 PM
Bubbles_2
UK(E), 6 yrs
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IndelibleMarker wrote:
.. then you simply rescale it to meters at the end if you choose not to work in meters to begin with.
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Metres, surely? Unless we are Americans, meters are something different... Club Subversion
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15 Jan 10, 12:24 AM
IndelibleMarker
UK(E), 6 yrs
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Bubbles_2 wrote:
IndelibleMarker wrote:
.. then you simply rescale it to meters at the end if you choose not to work in meters to begin with.
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Metres, surely? Unless we are Americans, meters are something different...
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If anyone cares... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre
Wikipedia wrote:
The metre (or meter) is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). |
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15 Jan 10, 12:34 AM
jules9
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strongarm wrote:
Now if you had put the title BDSM Engineering, I wouldn't have nit-picked.
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Yeah, but then the answer would have been 13.324 ±20% 
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15 Jan 10, 6:11 AM
janusxuk
UK(HP), 7 yrs
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If you are asking for the answer to 3 decimal places it implies you care beyond the point that wikipedia is an acceptable source.
Oxford_English_Dictionary wrote:
metre: the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimetres (approx. 39.37 inches).
meter: a device that measures and records the quantity, degree, or rate of something.
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Edited 15 Jan 10, 6:16 AM by janusxuk
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15 Jan 10, 7:51 AM
IndelibleMarker
UK(E), 6 yrs
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Janus_x wrote:
If you are asking for the answer to 3 decimal places it implies you care beyond the point that wikipedia is an acceptable source.
Oxford_English_Dictionary wrote:
metre: the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equal to 100 centimetres (approx. 39.37 inches).
meter: a device that measures and records the quantity, degree, or rate of something.
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Or that I'm asking for the length to the closest mm!?
Or that it's not even my question in the first bloody place! Kisses to all you fabioso people!
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Edited 15 Jan 10, 7:52 AM by IndelibleMarker
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15 Jan 10, 10:14 PM
crystaltips
UK(S), 5 yrs
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jules9 wrote:
strongarm wrote:
Now if you had put the title BDSM Engineering, I wouldn't have nit-picked.
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Yeah, but then the answer would have been 13.324 ±20%
XxX
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I like this answer - but then i'm more a physicist than a mathematician - how can you give an answer without etimating the errors?
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