Its funny, it just occurred to me that it was right there in front of me all along. I didn't even need to know what a radian was at all. Its really more of a concept than it is a necessary number. In and of itself its pretty meaningless. It all just came back to what I learned way back in...
Pretty elementary I know, but just in case this helps anyone else:
I feel a little silly in retrospect. I searched all over the place online before posting here. My problem was that I didn't until today understand what a radian was. A radian is essentially defined as the circular segment...
@Klaas van Aarsen Thank you! I was able to use your answer to write my desired code section. I just needed to add some language to convert degrees to radians (degrees*pi/180). My finished section of Ruby code looks like this:
arc_length/(arc_angle * Math::PI / 180)
Thanks so much for the...
I'm attempting to write some code using the Ruby programming language that will give me the radius of an arc but the only pieces of information I have to work with are the arc length (L), the chord length (C), and the circular segment angle in degrees (A):
I'm hoping someone can show me how to...
Awesome! Thanks : )
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Thanks you, but I purposely labeled them like that. Those are the way angles are used in my drafting program and my goal is to have angles that report in those exact formats. Now that I have the proper formula, I think I can make it work...
I'm looking for a little help here. I'm just a relatively regular Joe here though, so any complicated formulas are likely to go right over my head. What I'm trying to do is use the Ruby programming language to convert rise and run (slope) to degrees. See the attached screenshot...
Assume x...
I'm not exactly a mathematician but I do enjoy a good exercises in basic logic so I'll take a crack at this one that may be a little more in layman's terms than some of the other answers you've received.
Saying a number is irrational is just saying that it cannot be expressed as a ratio of...
I am totally appreciative of the time you've taken. Thank you so much, but essentially I got none of it. I think I was hoping for some direction that was a little more practical and a little more physically based (for lack of better terms)--something I could do with the square, protractor, and...
This is my first time posting here so please forgive me any indiscretions...
I'm actually not a student. I'm a general contractor. Part of what I do for a living is draw plans, and that quite often involves geometrical and trigonometrical type challenges. For the most part, I'm usually able...