I totally suck at doing stuff like this.
I have the dimensions of a large board and I need to print out a large banner pieces to go on it.
Can someone tell me how big areas "A" and "B" need to be?
Thanks!
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| Author: | iJasonT [ Sun May 06, 2007 12:04 pm ] |
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I totally suck at doing stuff like this. I have the dimensions of a large board and I need to print out a large banner pieces to go on it. Can someone tell me how big areas "A" and "B" need to be? Thanks!
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| Author: | Obo [ Sun May 06, 2007 12:15 pm ] |
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You'd need the distance between the two diamonds, or from one diamond to the side. I assume you want the actual dimensions of the shapes and not just the area? |
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| Author: | iJasonT [ Sun May 06, 2007 12:34 pm ] |
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The diamonds are 12" across. The tips should be right at the 1/4 mark to 24" and 72". The white space between the diamonds and the blue is roughly 3". This is all the info that I have. |
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| Author: | Arindel [ Sun May 06, 2007 2:37 pm ] |
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Obo wrote: You'd need the distance between the two diamonds, or from one diamond to the side.
I assume you want the actual dimensions of the shapes and not just the area? How the heck did you know what he was talking about? Where'd diamond come from? |
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| Author: | iJasonT [ Sun May 06, 2007 3:28 pm ] |
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I know this is not a hard question I just cannto figure it out. 5 separate pieces. The diamonds are 12" square and the points are at 24" and 72" on the 96" board. How big is the center piece and the 2 end pieces? |
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| Author: | Arindel [ Sun May 06, 2007 7:06 pm ] |
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iJasonT wrote: I know this is not a hard question I just cannto figure it out.
5 separate pieces. The diamonds are 12" square and the points are at 24" and 72" on the 96" board. How big is the center piece and the 2 end pieces? I must be dense. you have all the diamond sizes and you have your points. the width of the diamond is the square root of 12x12 + 12x12 or suare root of 288 = 16.97 or let's call it 17 inches. the rest you m,ight have to explain. i think you mean that there is a point 24 inches from each side, but what does that point mean? the middle of the diamond or the edges of the diamnd? |
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| Author: | Obo [ Sun May 06, 2007 7:11 pm ] |
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Assuming the 3" gap is straight across, it's not quite clear on the pic (would be a very big gap if it was perpendicular) 
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| Author: | Golga Bolg [ Sun May 06, 2007 7:47 pm ] |
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I did the same as Obo and got the same results. (Mine was in Visio, and I don't have an easy place to host the image) |
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| Author: | iJasonT [ Sun May 06, 2007 10:26 pm ] |
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awesome, thanks guys! I just completely suck when it comes to crap like this. Thanks again! |
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| Author: | Azzameen85 [ Fri May 11, 2007 9:50 pm ] |
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That's why I stopped working on math. I had difficulty seeing the purpurse of doing such math if you rarelywould use it in the real life. And I had High Level Math in senior high... |
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| Author: | Cyrus Rex [ Sat May 12, 2007 12:24 am ] |
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A few years ago I thought the same way Azz. However as the years pass, I see advanced math in the real world more now than ever before. I am reminded of what an old engineering professor told me many years ago. He said once we graduate out duty to the workforce is not to remember all the details in our books, it is to be smart enough to remember what books/page/tool/skill to turn to when tasked to solve a problem. It is about being exposed to the tools, and recalling that they are an option when posed with a problem. Once you are tasked to solve problems on our own, analyzing random off the wall things for upper management, you will be surprised what you remember and what skills you retain that will help save you ass. The slope of a line, the area under a curve, it all has meaning. Being able to look at a graph and interpret meaning beyond the obvious and make logical time saving conclusions. I have used more calculus and deferential equations to get me out of a pinch… it is not about remembering what the integral of arctangent is, it is about being able to see the calculus in the world around you, and use it to your benefit. As time goes on I think the ability to use such tools is what separates the men from the boys. The hardest thing I run into is probably listening to what District-A-hole is saying, interpreting what he really wants despite the incorrect terminology he uses, then using my head/math to figure out how to get the answer as quickly and accurately as possible. Or better yet; defending myself quickly when put on the spot in a meeting full of senior managers. Nothing is better than using your quick math skills to shut up a hot head who is attaching you in front of his senior peers. All of a sudden he looks like the fool and his peers either: a) want you on their team from now on, b) know better than to screw with you in the future. I am not ragging you Azz. I just read this thread and realized I once though like you… but not any more. |
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| Author: | sopturtle [ Sat May 12, 2007 7:27 pm ] |
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Yeah. Math is actually pretty useful. But I'm an aerospace engineering student so maybe that makes things different. But without the tools to solve complex differential equations (they actually aren't too difficult). We wouldn't have anything we have today. I used to think in high school and even freshman year of college "when will I ever invert a matrix in real life." In the real world you probably will never have to do any of these things. Even engineers will not HAVE to do this. But it makes things a hell of a lot easier than "eye-balling" and guestimating things. Plus just doing arithmetic takes FOREVER to solve problems. Go math! But as far as some of the even more advanced math goes you probably won't need to know it by more advanced I mean what those math majors are up to. |
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| Author: | Azzameen85 [ Sun May 13, 2007 2:36 am ] |
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Thanks for heads up guys, not that I haven't heard it before, but I really mean it. But I have to take it into consideration what I would use math for, and I'm still 21 years old so I honestly don't know where my future would take me. True it is good to remember and even though I can't pick out a formular off my head, I have in more than one occation discovered that if I'm stuck at something and I get a little hint the rest just solves it self, somehow.... Still I have my formular book at home and I really like to havce them around since sometimes I need to check out on something, like the taxes.... At any rate I look forward to use math again since I'm starting in Computer Administrator classes this summer. At the 4th or 5th semester I get to choose what line I would focus on with several choise like buisness, programming or administration among them. Programming is my current favorite so I know I'm gonna need it. This is not a defence of such, just letting you know a little of who I am. And I don't mind being rassed a little bit. Sometime I need to have a bang in my head.... |
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