Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site timeinc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!greenber From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Any surveyors out there??? Message-ID: <263@timeinc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 23:51:16 EDT Article-I.D.: timeinc.263 Posted: Sat Jun 22 23:51:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 07:54:58 EDT Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 27 Summary: A puzzle that hit me on the head a few days ago. Given three points (X) whose co-ordinates are known, and some point within the triangle formed by these other points, how do you find the location of the "interior" point given only that the angles through 'O' are known X (point 1) | | | O <------ This angle (and the others like it) / \ are known / \ / \ / \ (Point 2)X \ \ X (Point 3) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross M. Greenberg @ Time Inc, New York --------->{ihnp4 | vax135}!timeinc!greenber<--------- I highly doubt that Time Inc. they would make me their spokesperson.