From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,224b101410a848a7 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Received: by 10.68.226.168 with SMTP id rt8mr1537242pbc.8.1355994847506; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:14:07 -0800 (PST) Path: s9ni54847pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Manuel Collado Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Tutor: Outside Assignment 2 - Question to the Solution Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:13:19 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: hnak8G7QKlwB8Nvdm1e0bA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-12-20T10:13:19+01:00 List-Id: 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