| Mathematical recreations - 1774 - 734 pages
...1755. In the three fides of an equi- angular field (land three trees, at thediftances of lo, 12 and 1 6 chains from one another : to find the content of the field, it being the greatcft the da:a will admit of. Anjxered, Anfwered ly Mr. W. Bevil. Ccnßrufiion. The given points... | |
| Ladies' diary - 1775 - 498 pages
...Tho. Mofs. In the three fides of an equiangular fitld (land three trees, nt the diftances of 10, 11, and 16 chains from one another; To find the content of the field, it being the greatclt the data will admit of? VII. QUESTION 397 ly Mr. J. Afli. Standing at the end of a vifto.... | |
| Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 468 pages
...BAD, the course лип, from the west, is found to be 47° 25'. vi. QUESTION 396, by Mr. Thos. Moss. In the three sides of an equi-angular field stand...field, it being the greatest the data will admit of ? Answered by Mr. W. Bevil. Construction. The given points А, в, с being joined, upon AC and вс... | |
| Richard Cottle, Carlton E. Lemke - Mathematics - 1976 - 212 pages
...U7): "In the three Sides of an equiangular Field stand three Trees, at the Distances of lO, l2, and l6 Chains from one another: To find the Content of the...Field, it being the greatest the Data will admit of?" While there seems to have been no explicit recognition of the connection with Fermat 's Problem in... | |
| Vladimir Boltyanski, Horst Martini, V. Soltan - Computers - 1998 - 448 pages
...journal "The Lady's Diary or Woman's Almanach" (cf. [121], p. 7): "In the three sides of an equilateral field stand three trees, at the distances of 10, 12...field, it being the greatest the data will admit of." More explicitly, this task was stated in the first issue of the journal " Annales de Mathematiques... | |
| Zvi Drezner, Horst W. Hamacher - Business & Economics - 2001 - 480 pages
...already an implicit use of the dual. The Ladies Diary or Woman's Almanack (1755) contains the problem: "In the three sides of an equiangular field stand...field, it being the greatest the data will admit of?". This geometrical problem was stated in a more academic manner in Annales de Mathematiques Pures et... | |
| Edinburgh Mathematical Society - Electronic journals - 1897 - 208 pages
...projections on the sides of DEF. Then PP1 + PP2 + PP3 = AL = VA + VB + VC. But PP, + PP2 + PP3<PA + PB + PC (44) Triangle DEF is the maximum equilateral triangle...the required triangle DEF. In Gergonne's Annales de Mathématiques I. 384 (1811) there were proposed the two problems : In any given triangle to inscribe... | |
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