On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:17:47AM -0700, John Porter wrote: > > Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Heh. I never expected to have to dust off my trig skills when I > > started this. If I need to dig out the calculus books, I think I'll > > just go run screaming... > > Not to worry. There's no trig involved. Just the > Pythagorean theorem. Unless I'm being thick, x² < y² whenever x < y for positive x and y (ie you don't need to take the square root of the hypotenuse to work out which hypotenuse is shorter. And all we're actually interested in which one is shorter, aren't we?) Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
