Re: Problem


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Re: Problem



Did the problem provide the size of the planet?


        ~ Mark
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> From: Adam Trilling <adamt@SHADOW.NET>
> To: CALC-TI@LISTS.PPP.TI.COM
> Subject: Problem
> Date: Sunday, October 13, 1996 5:05 PM
>
> I don't know how on-topic this is, but I saw this problem in a magazine
> and I figured someone here had to know enough math to figure it out.
>
> Supose you have a perfectly spherical planet and you want to put
> lightposts around the equator so that the entire equator is illuminated
> and the total height of lightposts is minimized.  You must use at least 3
> lightposts.


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