Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Move

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Tyler Crosby wrote:
> >From: Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Move
> >Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:00:46 -0500
> >
> >At 06:34 PM 2002-03-13 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >>I run to (10,13) and Tackle Bean.  Let's see if this works.
> >
> >Uh... are you sure about that???  (10,13) puts you farther from me than you
> >are.... and there's *no* way you can tackle me from there.... uh.... nor
> >can you even get to (10,13)... nor (13,10), if that's what you meant....
> >(recall:  Football running is done with a Cartesian metric).
> >
> >Bean
> >
> Did you move and did I miss it?

No... it's just by my calculations....

The Grid page says you are at (11, 7).

Distance between (11, 7) and (10, 13)
 = ((11-10)^2 + (7-13)^2)^(1/2)
 = (1^2 + (-6)^2)^(1/2)
 = (1 + 36)^(1/2)
 ~= 6.0828 > 3

Therefore you can't run there.

Distance between (11, 7) and (13, 10) (in case that's what you meant)
 = ((11-13)^2 + (7-10)^2)^(1/2)
 = ((-2)^2 + (-3)^2)^(1/2)
 = (4 + 9)^(1/2)
 ~= 3.6056 > 3

Therefore you can't run there.

And in case you want to tacke me from where you stand:
Distance between (11,7) and (13,11):
 = ((11-13)^2 + (7-11)^2)^(1/2)
 = ((-2)^2 + (-3)^2)^(1/2)
 = (4 + 9)^(1/2)
 ~= 3.6056 > 2

Therefore you can't tackle me from where you stand.

Now, if there's something wrong with that logic.... someone let me
know.... but it seems solid from my POV.

Bean