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Subject: Re: How confident are you that you could have done this? (OT)

Author: h.g.muller

Date: 13:52:39 02/14/06

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On February 14, 2006 at 15:26:04, F. Huber wrote:

>they are not so difficult, that I wouldn´t be much faster without a computer. :)
>
>Franz.

True, I would not know how to use a computer to my advantage in solving this
problem. Perhaps for an expert in formula-manipulation languages such as
Mathematica...

I consider myself a pretty adept mathematician, but it still took me 20 minutes
to solve this! Partly because I did not know the formula for the volume of a
ball cap by heart, and had to derive that by integration... Not very difficult,
but very tedious, and you have to keep sharp all the way because a single error
will kill you.

But a very strange problem for a programming contest!

• Re: How confident are you that you could have done this? (OT) John Merlino 16:09:01 02/14/06
  • Re: How confident are you that you could have done this? (OT) Derek Mauro 17:01:44 02/14/06

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