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From: Manuel Collado <m.collado@domain.invalid>
Subject: Re: Ada Tutor: Outside Assignment 2 - Question to the Solution
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:13:19 +0100
Date: 2012-12-20T10:13:19+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kauksr$kmh$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ef9f6672-e78d-43fb-b73a-4642c6cadb18@googlegroups.com

El 20/12/2012 1:15, Adam Beneschan escribi�:
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:18:00 PM UTC-8, Cedric wrote:
>
>> I would assume that a triangle formed by 1, 2 and 3 would give a
>> valid triangle. Why should that not be the case?
>
> I'd recommend trying it yourself ... cut three pieces of string whose
> lengths are 1, 2, and 3 inches (or 1, 2, and 3 cm if you prefer; or
> if that's too small, try 3, 6, and 9 cm).  Then try to make a
> triangle.

They make a perfectly valid (degenerated) triangle:
   A B   C
   *-*---*

With sides 1,2 and 3, and angles 0�, 180� and 0�.


> I think you'll see what the problem is.

Of course. The problem is to agree if a degenerated triangle is or not 
an acceptable triangle.

-- 
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado




  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-20  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-19 23:18 Ada Tutor: Outside Assignment 2 - Question to the Solution Cedric
2012-12-19 23:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-20  0:15 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-12-20  9:13   ` Manuel Collado [this message]
2012-12-20  9:27     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-12-20 11:16 ` Stephen Leake
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