The bulk of this is collapsing down a nasty law of cosines I think in the triangle. I think I’ve got a strategy for the circle, but I’ll see. Been working on it a little for two days, made some progress.
IOP is not a right triangle.
This problem just came up while trying to solve an engeneering problem.
Thx a lot for trying it out, i found two solutions myself, but it was either solving a quartic polynomial or finding the limit of a series… I wanted to see if anyone found a more elegant solution ;)
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The bulk of this is collapsing down a nasty law of cosines I think in the triangle. I think I’ve got a strategy for the circle, but I’ll see. Been working on it a little for two days, made some progress.
Where did you find this?
polotype@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
IOP is not a right triangle. This problem just came up while trying to solve an engeneering problem.
Thx a lot for trying it out, i found two solutions myself, but it was either solving a quartic polynomial or finding the limit of a series… I wanted to see if anyone found a more elegant solution ;)
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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This is what I have so far. Realized my confusion - d’^2 + d^2 wouldn’t be D^2, ofc, so that the cosine there doesn’t evaluate to zero.
hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 22 hours ago
Wow
Internet has hope after all! I love you two!
polotype@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Nice ! At first i though your h was my H and was very confused, but this looks alright to me :)