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Just how many engineers does it take to solve a simple geometry problem?
Two months later [1] and we're still waiting to install updates to “Project:
Sippy-Cup [2]” into production. We were finally given the “okay” this week,
but have twice scrubbed the [DELETED-launch-DELETED] deployment because …
“reasons.”
Sigh.
So there's very little for us (the Call Processing team at the Ft. Lauderdale
Office of The Corporation) to do this week. And because of that, I've started
back to work on a small geometry problem that floated around the office some
time last year—find “x”:
[Note: it's not to scale. And no, circling the “x” and scribbling “Found it!”
is not the answer.] [3]
I can't be that hard, right? All you need to solve it is geometry. You know,
the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180°, what constitutes congruent
triangles, all that stuff you should have learned in the 10^th grade but have
probably forgotten by now.
Um … yeah.
[Sure, ∠CEA ≅ ∠CQB, but where does that get us?] [4]
[5]
Fellow cow-orker T didn't solve it (and took a copy home for his son to work
on). T2 solved it by using trigonometry. And it took a few hours of hashing
it out between myself and R to get a purely geometric solution to it.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2016/03/10.1
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2014/03/05.1
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2016/05/11/geometry-puzzle.png
[4]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2016/05/11/thumb-geometry.jpg
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2016/05/11/geometry.jpg
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