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  Re: Studless building techniques
 
In lugnet.robotics.edu, Merredith Portsmore wrote: <snip> (...) Meredith, Thanks for posting this. It is wonderful first shot at some of these building topics. I am concerned, however, about the Pythagorean triangles on the Stability link. The (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  Re: Studless building techniques
 
(...) <snip> (...) building (...) Stability link. (...) 6-8-10 (...) the (...) beams (...) holes. As (...) misleading. (...) the (...) typical (...) compute the (...) hard to (...) 3-4-5 works (...) distances (...) methinks, (...) This I would be (...) (18 years ago, 7-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  Re: Studless building techniques
 
(...) Dang. Yes, they do... and I'm ashamed to say I've known about those for some time, and neither myself nor several other folks never picked up on that. Drat. (...) Since that's the way numbers work, that's how I'd teach (more to the point (...) (18 years ago, 7-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  Re: Studless building techniques
 
(...) Hmm I generally use a unitless number when working with Lego here.. But I do remember having it drilled into me at school how bad that is, we had a math teacher who used to bounce up and down red in the face when people failed to mention the (...) (18 years ago, 7-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
 
  Re: Studless building techniques
 
(...) Font issue, I'm sure. The text seems pretty consistent with its use of "M". (...) I wanted to point out here that this was the official LEGO web site you were looking at, not private pages. "M" is actually an internal measurement that TLG has (...) (18 years ago, 10-Oct-06, to lugnet.robotics.edu)

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