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#1 2006-02-27 16:32:16

Ricky
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Registered: 2005-12-04
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Fence

You have 8 feet of fencing, and are asked to enclose the largest area within that fence as possible.  What do you do?


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#2 2006-02-27 17:11:21

Jai Ganesh
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Registered: 2005-06-28
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Re: Fence

Ricky, this was posted here long back, here. big_smile


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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