Re: Help with maths

From: Graham Nye <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:29:43 GMT

Gareth McCaughan wrote:

And only the other day I had a light inextensible
ladder of infinite length leaning against a smooth wall, with
a point mass hung from it by a perfectly elastic string, and
I thought: If only I knew the angle between the ladder and the
wall...

From half way up that ladder I can see a field of
spherical cows.

--
Graham Nye
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