Sorry to hear about your Mom Chuck. That sucks. Wish I could offer something more profound, but I can't sum it up any better. (BTW...as a product of the Utah Public School System, I had to look up grades vs angles. But I'm pretty sure 20% of 90 isn't 11.31) Dan On Aug 29, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, professor!
My mom passed-on on Monday and I'm not feeling too charitable right now, or even sober enough to care. I appreciate your reply, Fletcher. I knew you'd know the shortcut.
C.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Fletcher Gross <gross@math.utah.edu> wrote:
11.31 degrees (the arctangent of 0.2)
Fletch
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On Aug 29, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
You dont even need a protractor. Just calculate 20% of 90.
Go to public grade school in Utah, did you? On Aug 29, 2012 3:30 PM, "D P Pierce" <starsbirdsglyphs@gmail.com> wrote:
Seth, About what degree angle would 20% be? I think I remember a 20% grade means that in a 100 feet of horizontal travel the grade increases or decreases 20 feet. That would mean a 100% grade would be a 45 degree angle. I think a 20% grade would be a lot less than a 20 degree angle. I've forgotten all of my trigonometry or I could calculate it myself.
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