[math-fun] Do your folks have a big screen monitor? Do you have an iPhone?
Could you give us a hint about your family's income? Why else would we ask you this ridiculous homework question? Saxon Math Student EBook 2: 8. a. Estimate the length of segment *AB* in inches. ⁎————————————————————————————⁎ *A* *B* b. Measure the length of segment *AB* to the nearest eighth of an inch. (Screenshot: gosper.org/saxongem.png . This is an electronic book.) --rwg
Is it rendered as a png, or with css? css can use absolute scaling (width: 1.5in). Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Could you give us a hint about your family's income? Why else would we ask you this ridiculous homework question?
Saxon Math Student EBook 2: 8. a. Estimate the length of segment *AB* in inches. ⁎————————————————————————————⁎ *A* *B*
b. Measure the length of segment *AB* to the nearest eighth of an inch.
(Screenshot: gosper.org/saxongem.png . This is an electronic book.) --rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Charles Greathouse wrote:
Is it rendered as a png, or with css? css can use absolute scaling (width: 1.5in).
CSS may claim that it can use absolute scaling, but it's lying. You could be using a display whose size cannot even in principle be known to the software driving it, for example using a projector. Indeed if you are, for example, using your laptop with display mirroring turned on, there may not even *be* a single display size. -- Tom Duff. If you have nothing to do, please do not do it here.
Yes, and the CSS standard (IIRC) lets devices lie about their sizes in some cases. But it's usually pretty good. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Tom Duff <td@pixar.com> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Charles Greathouse wrote:
Is it rendered as a png, or with css? css can use absolute scaling (width:
1.5in).
CSS may claim that it can use absolute scaling, but it's lying. You could be using a display whose size cannot even in principle be known to the software driving it, for example using a projector. Indeed if you are, for example, using your laptop with display mirroring turned on, there may not even *be* a single display size.
-- Tom Duff. If you have nothing to do, please do not do it here.
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