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Old July 6th 16, 07:33 AM posted to rec.skiing.alpine
Richard Henry
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Default Jeopardy gets slope degree/percent wrong

On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 8:43:26 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 07/05/2016 03:30 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 2:51:48 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 07/05/2016 12:16 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 11:56:14 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 09:57:33 UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:

Or, for the mathematically-challenged, multiply or divide by 2.

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Cheers, Bev

Huh??? 45 degres = 100 % hows that a multiply/divide by 2?

http://www.greenbeltconsulting.com/a...tionships.html

That's all the math some people can handle.

No ****. I'll try to figure out what I was thinking about in a minute
or so. Maybe...


It works some of the time - for 35 degrees, slope is 70 percent.

Just be thankful they weren't trying to measure the angle in radians.


ROUGHLY half or double. Granted, precision counts for a lot. Still...

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Cheers, Bev
There are 10 types of people in this world,
those who understand binary and those who don't.


From 0 to 20 degrees, tan() is also roughly the same as sin(), so you throw that page out of your CRC math tables.
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