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Dr. Calculus Started conversation Jun 30, 2000
Spent much of the morning thinking about ellipses.
Ellipses
Dr. Calculus Posted Jun 30, 2000
Hmm, ellipses are tricky fellas.
Finding the distance from any arbitrary point to the closest point on an ellipse isn't closed form.
Looks like it should be though.
I wonder how to switch that stoopid advert off ...
Ellipses
Dr. Calculus Posted Jul 3, 2000
The really flashing one on the top of every screen - with the (dying?) parrot...
And the bag a bargain at www.gigsave.com aaaargh, I've fallen into the trap and actually read them aaaaargh ....
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