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miter question
cj wrote:
i have a wall that is about hip high that forms a 90 degree enclosing
a set of steps going down to the basement. i would like to widen( or
cap ) the top with some wider lumber so that it may be used for
placing knick-knacks, pictures etc. but it seems to me that the
length of each piece (forms a 90 )needs to be longer than the
narrower mitered pieces that i will be attaching to. am i right and
is there a formula to determine what the length of the new wider
pieces of lumber that will be attached?
thanks, cj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem
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