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Re: That darned old cocked hat
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2010 Dec 10, 17:10 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2010 Dec 10, 17:10 -0800
Hewitt,
A reasonable approximation of the 25/75 can be had by drawing a slightly fat circle around the triangle. The triangle area will be about 25 percent of the area of the circle therefor the area of the circle minus the area of the triangle will be about 75 percent.
Greg Rudzinski
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