Picky, picky, picky.

If you want to play those games, Doug:

"Bevel" is described as "the angle formed at the juncture of two non =
perpendicular surfaces."

"Miter" could mean "a tall ornamental liturgical headdress" worn by some =
members of the clergy, or it could mean, as it does in this case, =
"either of the surfaces that come together in a miter joint".

If you want to play with polygonal surfaces, why not say so? "board =
_not_ squared" is so imprecise.

I guess your problem must lie with your inability to visualize the =
position of the board within its frame of reference.

I am further amazed that one who would advertise one's self as a "Geek" =
would be unable to appreciate the intended absurdity of the precision. =
I was leaving it up the positor, to extract a suitable level of =
imprecision.

Go play with your semantics, sirrah.=20

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PDQ
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message =
. ..
| In article , "PDQ" =
wrote:
| If you mean a miter cut, the length of the miter is
|
| the root of two times the square of the width of the board.
|=20
| Try again. Square root of 2 times the width of the board _not_ =
squared.
|
| If you mean a bevel cut, the length of the bevel is
|
| the root of two times the square of the thickness of the board.
|=20
| Try again. Square root of 2 times the thickness of the board _not_ =
squared.
| Your formulas below are correct (even though given with an absurd =
degree of=20
| precision), but your descriptions above are wrong, and don't match the =

| formulas.
|
| 1 inch wide =3D 1.4142135623730950488016887242097
| 2 inch wide =3D 2.8284271247461900976033774484194
| 3 inch wide =3D 4.24264068711928514640506617262909
| 4 inch wide =3D 5.65685424949238019520675489683879
|
| It appears the bevel/miter is proportional to the width by a factor =
of =3D
| ~1.41.
|=20
| Yes. Proportional to the width. Not to the square of the width.
|=20
| Or, the width/thickness is always 70.7106781186547524400844362105198% =
of=20
| the bevel/miter.
|=20
| 70.7 % is plenty close enough.
|=20
| --
| Regards,
| Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
|=20
| Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his =
butt.
| And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?