Alas, there is no quality newspaper in the world.
Well, the St Petersburg Times got it right. Yesterday afternoon I got a call from one of their reporters and was surprised to find myself quoted in the morning paper with all my "Um..well..ah..gee". Fortunately I had Maple open in front of me when she called so could give an answer. I offered to give her 10 or more decimal places for each of the non-90 degree angles, but she was happy with just 2. Their story is accompanied by a nice drawing of the 3-4-5 and 30-60-90 triangles. http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/07/State/Query_stumps_governor.shtml One of my colleagues said he would have just answered, "Of course, the answer is pi/2, arctan(3/4), pi/2-arctan(3/4)." Alas, I couldn't think that fast. --Edwin