You win :)

RobVG — 2/1/2008 1:37:02 AM (archived)

I had to see how you sloved the base triangle with trig. It was a bugger until it occurred to me to use the 100' leg as the hypotenuse of the lower triangle formed by dividing the base triangle into two 90s.... Duh.

You were much closer. I got 512' and 540'.

Cheers

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Some hints for UFO investigators - ER - 1/29/2008 7:23:46 PM
- re: Still wondering - Johannes - 1/29/2008 9:35:34 PM
  - To take the contrarian view... - alcaray - 1/30/2008 10:17:24 PM
  - Absolutely. - ER - 1/29/2008 9:39:10 PM
    - re: Suppose that - Johannes - 1/29/2008 10:05:01 PM
      - re: Suppose that - SDG - 1/29/2008 10:11:06 PM
        
        re: re:The situation isâ€¦. - Johannes - 1/29/2008 11:19:47 PM
- Well put - azstrummer - 1/29/2008 8:51:26 PM
  - Look at it this way Art - Lindy - 1/29/2008 11:35:04 PM
    - Ok - azstrummer - 1/30/2008 5:05:30 AM
- Pareidolia - Raoul - 1/29/2008 8:48:35 PM
  - Pareidolia will destroia. (n/t) - ER - 1/29/2008 8:52:14 PM
    - "'cause there's a red, under my bed..." (n/t) - RobVG - 1/29/2008 9:25:32 PM
      - Careful! - ER - 1/29/2008 9:36:50 PM
- Distance - RobVG - 1/29/2008 8:20:41 PM
  - But if you had multiple accurate and trustworthy sightings... - alcaray - 1/30/2008 10:23:06 PM
  - "Ezekial saw a wheel, way up in the air..." - ER - 1/29/2008 8:38:53 PM
    - Clouds - RobVG - 1/29/2008 9:23:36 PM
      - re: Clouds - Lindy - 1/29/2008 11:37:36 PM
        
        What reminded you, "Clouds" - RobVG - 1/30/2008 12:29:20 AM
        
        re: What reminded you, "Clouds" - Lindy - 1/30/2008 1:58:19 AM
      - Yah. But all that math! - ER - 1/29/2008 9:34:01 PM
        
        Yah. YUK! - RobVG - 1/30/2008 12:00:48 AM
        
        Romancing the mother ship - ER - 1/30/2008 2:43:11 PM
        
        The two guys story problem. - podrock - 1/30/2008 7:49:54 PM
        
        You devil - ER - 1/31/2008 3:47:17 AM
        
        You win :) - RobVG - 2/1/2008 1:37:02 AM
        
        Or: - podrock - 2/1/2008 4:38:18 PM
        
        One more time? - RobVG - 2/1/2008 7:59:57 PM
        
        Law of Sines - podrock - 2/1/2008 8:14:29 PM
        
        Oh. Thank you (n/t) - RobVG - 2/1/2008 8:27:45 PM
        
        high school math - ER - 2/1/2008 3:41:21 AM
        
        review - podrock - 2/1/2008 4:45:23 PM
        
        High Strange and Real Analysis. - ER - 2/1/2008 7:54:56 PM
        
        my fault - podrock - 1/31/2008 4:00:43 AM
        
        CAD also. (n/t) - RobVG - 1/31/2008 4:12:18 AM
        
        Aaaaaaaaaargh! (n/t) - ER - 1/31/2008 4:08:47 AM
        
        I say that all the time. - podrock - 1/31/2008 4:33:14 AM
        
        "Maybe Lindy can provide a link to any studies that used a multiple triangulation approach." - Lindy - 1/31/2008 6:00:30 AM
        
        That's two.... - podrock - 2/1/2008 4:48:09 PM
        
        Aaargh indeed! - ER - 2/1/2008 7:59:11 PM
        
        as recompense might I recommend... - podrock - 2/1/2008 8:49:46 PM
        
        It's not lost time.... - Lindy - 2/2/2008 3:56:33 AM
        
        Solution? - RobVG - 1/31/2008 3:42:59 AM
        
        close enough - podrock - 1/31/2008 4:14:59 AM
        
        "Lights in the sky" - RobVG - 1/30/2008 7:35:45 PM
        
        re: "Lights in the sky" - ER - 1/30/2008 10:03:30 PM
        
        LOL! ..."disguise" (n/t) - RobVG - 1/30/2008 11:18:18 PM
        
        Embarassing typo - ER - 1/30/2008 2:52:35 PM
        
        ER? Nick? ARRELL? - RobVG - 1/30/2008 4:11:11 AM
        
        Another potential source of some UFO sightings - Socrates II - 1/31/2008 1:51:28 PM

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