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    Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Steve Bliss
   (...) Now *my* head is hurting. You mean all these elements (URL) are mis-named? Oooo, someone get me some aspirin... Steve (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Todd Lehman
   (...) They're not too far off... Brick | Multi-Brick Multi-Brick | Single-Brick Single-Brick Size | Slope Angle | Slope Angle ---...---+---...---+---...--- 6x8x1 | 6:35 9.727579° | 11:70 8.930590° 2x4x1 | 6:15 21.801409° | 11:30 20.136303° 1x3x1 | (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
   
        RE: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) I agree with the first column (measuring from the bottom of vertical portion of the slope to the top of the slope), but not the second. In LDraw parts, the little vertical portion of the slope is 4 LDU, not 2, so the ratios are Brick | (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)  
    
         Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Todd Lehman
      (...) d'Oh! -- Yes, you're absolutely right -- thank you for the correction! (And I had this funny feeling when I posted that I was doing something wrong in the measurement. The vertical base part is 1/6 brick height, not 1/2 of 1/16.) --Todd (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
    
         Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Mladen Pejic
     (...) Shouldn't this be: 1x2x3 | 17:5 73.610460° Anyways, I've checked out most of the these calculations and measurements and they seem correct to me. - Mladen (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
   
        Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt... —Steve Bliss
   (...) Y'all aren't helping me any. "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades". A name change is a name change is a name change. There are some 35 slope bricks with the wrong angle encoded into their names. And no one noticed it (or at least (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)
 

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