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Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'

Posted By: ah_clem
Date: Thursday, 10 March 2016, at 9:43 p.m.

In Response To: Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle' (Albert Steg)

The easy way to remember it is that you want the gap to be as close as possible to e == 2.71828... .

I'll leave the derivation of why e gives the correct answer as an exercise for the reader.

Messages In This Thread

• Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
  Albert Steg -- Thursday, 10 March 2016, at 9:28 p.m.
  • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
    ah_clem -- Thursday, 10 March 2016, at 9:43 p.m.
  • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
    Tenland -- Thursday, 10 March 2016, at 10:39 p.m.
  • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
    Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 10 March 2016, at 11:47 p.m.
    • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
      Jdg -- Friday, 11 March 2016, at 1:25 a.m.
    • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
      Albert Steg -- Friday, 11 March 2016, at 2:28 a.m.
  • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
    Chuck Bower -- Friday, 11 March 2016, at 2:43 a.m.
    • Jeff Ward's 'Magic Triangle'
      ah_clem -- Friday, 11 March 2016, at 4:06 p.m.