Re: Programming question

From: Rodger Boots <rlboots_at_cedar-rapids.net>
Date: Thu Oct 28 1999 - 04:04:33 EDT

Yeah, I'm missing something here. It was at least 10 years ago.

"Christopher X. Candreva" wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Rodger Boots wrote:
>
> > On a unit I used to be on at my Real Job they just did this:
> > Take the smaller of xlength or ylength, multiply it time 3, divide
> > by 2, and add the result to the larger of xlength or ylength. The
> > result is a close approximation of the square root of the sum of
> > the squares.
>
> Are you sure about that ?
>
> For say 2 and 3:
> Sqrt (2^2 + 3^2) = sqrt(13) = 3.6
>
> ( (2*3) / 2 ) + 3 = 6
>
> Or am I missing something ?
>
> -Chris
>
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Received on Thu Oct 28 03:06:43 1999

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