Math Help

[brucegdc]

Originally Posted by Quahom1

Um, at the risk of being stupid, how long are the base and rise of the triangle for one corner is?

You know, the base dimension and the rise dimension?, for your right triangle in the corner? That is an easy enough set of dimensions...

Then you take that square in inches, and remove that times four from the length and width of your square/rectangle of a spa.

But then, you already knew that Chris...Easiest things first...

v/r

Joshua

I think you just forgot.

Ya know, that ancient indian, Pythagoras, was observing a wrestling match between three lads, observed by their mothers, sitting on a set of animal skins. One lady got quite upset and whomped the other two contestants after they ganged up on her son, and Pythagoras was heard to observe that the squaw on the hippopotamus was equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

(For a right triangle with 45 degree corners, the base (hypotenuse) is twice the rise, since the rise bisects the triangle into two smaller 45 degree right triangles each with the remaining side (1/2 the base of the original) equal to the rise).

... Bruce (was a math major for too long)

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by brucegdc

Ya know, that ancient indian, Pythagoras, was observing a wrestling match between three lads, observed by their mothers, sitting on a set of animal skins. One lady got quite upset and whomped the other two contestants after they ganged up on her son, and Pythagoras was heard to observe that the squaw on the hippopotamus was equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.

(For a right triangle with 45 degree corners, the base (hypotenuse) is twice the rise, since the rise bisects the triangle into two smaller 45 degree right triangles each with the remaining side (1/2 the base of the original) equal to the rise).

... Bruce (was a math major for too long)

Yup, times four, and divided by two, and then subracted from the square total, of the "square"...carpenters love squares (just look at me...)