Re: [math-fun] Elementary triangle puzzle
Yes, that's the last case: any point p on the base of an isosceles triangle with apex < pi/3 equally minimizes the sum of distances from p to the sides of the triangle. I like Fred's coinage of inceeding. I would also like to coin words for each connected component of non-equilateral isosceles triangles: Let the elongated equilaterals be called "sharp" and the squashed ones be called "flat". --Dan Fred wrote: << For isosceles triangles T with apical angle inceeding pi/3 --- exasperated at having no contrapositive for "exceeding", I hereby coin one --- any point along the base serves as centre p. For collinear T (with area zero) any point on the line serves as p.
"Things are seldom what they seem." --W.S. Gilbert
"Exceeding the speed limit is an offence in this country" "Greater than the speed limit ..." ?? WFL On 10/30/11, Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On Sunday 30 October 2011 02:45:03 Dan Asimov wrote:
I like Fred's coinage of inceeding.
"Less than" has the same number of characters and fewer syllables.
-- g
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[Me:]
"Less than" has the same number of characters and fewer syllables.
[Fred:]
"Exceeding the speed limit is an offence in this country"
"Greater than the speed limit ..." ??
I don't deny that there are contexts in which a verb opposite to "exceed" might be useful. I merely doubt that they arise often in mathematics, and deny that the instance in this thread that prompted the discussion is one of them. Of course *written* mathematics already has such a verb, and very concise it is too. "<". -- g
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