A Conversation for The Myth Of 42 [(5-3+0+5) * (6+0) = 42]
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Petkan Started conversation Apr 23, 2002
Ahh, as with other mysteries of the Universe, one can never escape this one 
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An interesting fact: last week I learned that there are 42 ways to find the length of all the elements in a rectangular triangle, if you are given just two of them.
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Apr 26, 2002
what's a rectangular Triangle - sounds a bit of an oxymoron....
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Petkan Posted Apr 27, 2002
Yes, indeed, but that's how we say it in our language. I meant a right triangle
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted May 3, 2002
AS opposed to a left triangle? (being deliberately dense in the name of "comedy" 
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Beatrice Posted May 3, 2002
Well you could put a right-angled triangle so that its eponymous corner was either at the left-hand or right-hand side of your page.
And if you had it oriented so that the 90 degree corner was pointing up or down, then it would be ambidextrous!
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Beatrice Posted Jun 19, 2002
OK, assume the > sign is a right angle.
Then this
I>
is a right handed triangle, and this
<I is a left hadned triangle, and these
^^^^^^
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are a complete mess because it's impossible to draw stuff with just letters and numbers!!!!!!!
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six7s Posted Jun 20, 2002
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Tell that to the machine sitting in front of you 
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Petkan Posted Jun 22, 2002
I tried, but it doesn't seem to hear me, no matter how loudly I shout
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Dec 6, 2002
I've found that the only way I can get it to hear me is to get up REALLY close to the screen and ....
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- 4: Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) (May 3, 2002)
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