coolness

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http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/energy-ex.html


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“You, sir, are a geek!


But I could use this at work...”

“most impressiv, indeed...”

“What about Farads?”

“Can I borrow your car?...for a month?
That would be cool. Thanks.”

“What a bunch of nerds!”

“Oh, I Ohm most forgot................”

“Ohm went AWOL a while back ----

Hey, I was just minding my own business.... doing a search for "Nathan Therm".... and that came up!        LOL

I do like the interface design of that application, though.  Just enter the quantity amd BAM.”

“Looky here Bub, I got my microfarads and my picofarads squared away.
My filter capacitors are lined up nice like little duckies on the B+ line.

WTF is this other schit?”

“Fire up that googlebox, boy!!


You think that's bad.... Did you see their home page?      
Be sure to scroll down to get the full impact.......        _(mooo-ha-ha)

http://www.unitconversion.org/index.html


It's freakin' Mad Scientist Heaven,   LOL

(I'm beginning to think Toejam is a Mad Scientist during the week....)

”

“P.S.

1 decibel = 0.115127792 neper”

“Amazingly they didn't have a formula I need; the volume of a three dimensional octagon.”

“Like an 8-sided cylinder? The area of eight isosceles triangles (or 16 right triangles) times the height?  

Or were you thinking of something more bizarre?   8-sided torus, maybe?     < G >”

“Hey man, I'm into the trailing edge of technology.”

“6 "sides" and 2 large "faces."”

“So a horizontal cross-section would be a 'stretched' stop sign?  



Sounds like a job for.... SOH-CAH-TOA!”

“Some kinda, What??”

“OMG....you guys are geeks!!!”

“Flashes of M.C. Escher.....

”

“STOP!!!

That stuff is making me dizzy!”

“Don't get that Tommy Roe song stuck in your head --- !         LMAO

"Like a whirlpool, it never ends...."”

“More like an over-flowing toilet!”

“Whassamatta Dude?

Parallelograms are Kewl!”

“Trapezoids have depth!”

“
SOH     Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
CAH     Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
TOA      Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent

Wow --- I thought I'd killed off all those braincells For Sure....”

“Yep, that's the shape of the pond. Got a formula for figuring the volume on that? I used to know it, from way way back when I took geology of all things. Maybe even in HS geometry, too.”

“Hey Tree if you send me the dims of that pond of your's I can get you the volume.
Don't ask me what the formula is..that's what I have AutoCad for :)”

“LMAO! Autocad to the rescue! Okay, I'll have to do some measurements. The bottom is graduated somewhat, so I'll really have to watch the accuracy.”

“Score one for Paul Bunyan and Babe the black inkpen!

Whadda ya mean 'graduated somewhat'?   < grrr >


L is the length of the long sides.
W is the width of the pond.

2.4154 is the tangent of 67.5°

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“Dork”

“
All standard and nonstandard disclaimers apply.

       Results not typical.

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“A standard uniform octagon is composed of 16 right triangles where the two remaining angles are 22.5°
and 67.5° ......”

“Cool, I'll give that a try in a while, depending on if my brain can stay functional while sleep-deprived. I used to know that by memory. Too many decades since then. ;)”

“You can't beat that with a stick.”

“Ulp.

I took the average of the various depths to compute this. I hope I'm off on these measurements.

My end volume in gallons is 9322.9224

That's about 4.5k gallons more than I was aiming for. If this is correct, then I seriously have to add on to the filtration for this bad boy. I'll have happy fish though.

Maybe I just need to invest in a good flow meter. ;)”

“Is there a variation on this formula where I can use the known surface area to get the total volume? That'd be a lot easier since its not a regular hexagon. 2 sides are longer than the other 4.


I need to post new photos of this bad boy pond, too.
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“I'd be curious to see what AutoCad comes up with.... It's been a While since I've done any Trig (hence the disclaimers).


Always remember:

the squaw on the hippopotamus is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides


Also ---

Given: God is Love.
Given: Love is Blind.
Therefore: Ray Charles is God.

CQFD

”

“So who is Stevie Wonder?”

“Ray Charles was country when country wasn't cool.”

“You mean "Little Stevie Wonder"?

Play yer harmonica, son!


That's a "made from scratch" type formula, < G >.  I don't know about you, but my algebra skills are a little rusty.  

All that mess is, is a horizontal cross-section ('surface area') times the height.... or are you thinking of something else, like the area around the sides and bottom?

Whadda ya mean "graduated somewhat"??     < VBG >       That sucker's gotta have planar surfaces on all sides.      < G >       This is why mathematicans deal only in theoretical constructs!”

“No wonder mathematicians aren't considered practical. Engineers rock!”

“Yikes. So I remeasured. Now I get a total volume of 9947.081 gallons!”

“Seeing as how you said that was over twice your estimate, I'm REAL curious what AutoCad comes up with!

I saw the 4.5 .... then I saw the 4.5k, ....”

“Criminy...that's not a pond, that's a small lake! :)”

“Ray was country when country was worth the listen.”

“Have you ordered the diving board yet?

(and how many cases of Jellow....)”

“Oh please, for a koi pond its small.


As far as a hexagon goes its 22 feet 1 inch long, by 14 feet 8 inches wide, with an average depth of 3.34 feet thus far. Make of it what you will. I thought I did the formula correctly but I don't know now.”

“Seeing as how you said that was over twice your estimate, I'm REAL curious what AutoCad comes up with!

Well as soon as someone gives me some numbers I'll tell ya :) lol”

“An oldie but a goodie

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