Re: Problem
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Isn't earth the only planet with lightposts? :-) It would be the earths
dimensions then.
Mark Morse <dolphin@ESKIMO.COM> Stated:
> Did the problem provide the size of the planet?
>
> ~ Mark
> ----------
> > 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
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