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(...) With a, b and c being the length of the sides, and A being the angle of the edge just opposite of a? Why, that looks just perfect! Thanks! (I'm used to using A, B and C for the lengths and the corresponding lowercase letters for the angles, so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
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(...) I don't actually know a sonorant from a fricative either, aside from what I can figure out by looking at the examples. But if Tom and Jeremy are into linguistics they probably already know more about it than we do {-; (...) You can use it if (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm. Y'know, you're right! -- I should've simply written MUCK. By MUHK, I was trying to get the "uh" sound. I'm no phoneticist! :) Anyway, so his last named is actually pronounced MUCK-ow, but we incorrectly pronounced it MOO-kow (or MUKE-ow), (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Geometry
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(...) Reaching way, way back... Can you use the law of sines? sin A / a = sin B / b = sin C / c Seems like there's a step missing though. Perhaps the law of cosines is better: a*a + b*b + c*c = -2bc*cos(A) Solve for A? Anyhow, good luck. Don (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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<379E1341.88686655@c...souri.edu> <slrn7pst1h.1om.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Oh my! I've been here at MU for eight years and we haven't seen either extreme that you've watched. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Suppose I have a triangle, in which I know the lengths of the three sides. I want to find the corresponding angles inside the triangles. Is there a quick and simple way to do that? I know that I can divide the triangle into two triangles with a 90° (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OS advocacy (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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(...) No, what I meant, even if it didn't come through clearly, was that if I were to choose to spend $2800 on a computer (which I would not NEED to do, unless I wanted a true behemoth of a machine) I could put one together that would outperform, in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: OS advocacy (was: Re: Perl rules!)
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<slrn7ppuk6.1g6.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> <379DDDC3.86F71E58@c...souri.edu> <slrn7prp5p.1m8.cjc@...S.UTK.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Wait. I missed something. So you can spend $2800 piecing together (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Idea for automatic Lugnet Set Database linking
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On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 06:53:49 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) Tommy 2tone? There's a blast from the past.... (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Well, that's a good point. I could buy a prebuilt machine that matches that G3's specs for $1626. Basically the same machine I just ordered for myself at work minus the 21" monitor. And I won't have to buy a real keyboard and mouse in addition (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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