In article ,
Bay Area Dave wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:

In article ,
Nate Perkins wrote:

"Bubba" wrote in message
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Okay, guys . . . . . give me a hand with a trig problem:

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I'm going to build a small stand. The base will be a tapered cone.
Dimensions are 18 inches high; 8 inches diameter at the top and 12 inches
diameter at the base. I'll glue up 6 tapered boards into a hexagonal cross
section, chuck it into a lathe and turn it smooth.

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Sheesh, kind of a tall order :-) The math is a little long to
explain here, but you can see it if you think of the hexagon as a
series of six equilateral triangles, each one of which is a 30-60-90
triangle


nit #1 -- 'equilateral' and '30-60-90' are mutually exclusive.




'twould be a scalene triangle, Robert.

A 'Microsoft tech support' response -- "technically accurate, but useless".

The original poster did _not_ use the ter 'scalene', so it isn't fair to
use it in pointing out the inconsistencies between the particular terms the
OP _did_ use.


"Thank you for playing."