Re: Help with maths

Ian Smith wrote:

On 26 Apr 2007, Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaughan@xxxxxxxxx> 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...

0 degrees, to any finite accuracy.
(Presuming that the foot is not infinitely far from the wall).
HTH

Why is that better than assuming that the top isn't infinitely
far from the ground?

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Gareth McCaughan
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