Re: [Flashcoders] Why didn't I listen in maths class...

2005-12-03 Thread Helen Triolo
x = r * sinA / (1 - sinA) (Math teachers told my daughter yesterday she'd need sin and cos someday so she came home and made me give her three examples of how/why I've used it with flash -- if anyone has any good ones besides eyes following mouse, moving object on a line relative to horizon,

Re: [Flashcoders] Why didn't I listen in maths class...

2005-12-02 Thread David Peek
Hi List, I'm trying to figure out what radius to make n number of circles fit around a circle of radius r. Several diagrams later I'd got it down to: sinA = x / (x + r) Where A is half the angle required by each circle ((360/n)/2), x is the radius we're looking for and r is the radius of th