Two months later [1] and we're still waiting to install updates to “Project: Sippy-Cup [2]” into production. We were finally given the “okay” this week, but have twice scrubbed the [DELETED-launch-DELETED] deployment because … “reasons.”
Sigh.
So there's very little for us (the Call Processing team at the Ft. Lauderdale Office of The Corporation) to do this week. And because of that, I've started back to work on a small geometry problem that floated around the office some time last year—find “x”:
[Note: it's not to scale. And no, circling the “x” and scribbling “Found it!” is not the answer.] [3]
I can't be that hard, right? All you need to solve it is geometry. You know, the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180°, what constitutes congruent triangles, all that stuff you should have learned in the 10^th grade but have probably forgotten by now.
Um … yeah.
[Sure, ∠CEA ≅ ∠CQB, but where does that get us?] [4] [5]
Fellow cow-orker T didn't solve it (and took a copy home for his son to work on). T2 solved it by using trigonometry. And it took a few hours of hashing it out between myself and R to get a purely geometric solution to it.
[3] /boston/2016/05/11/geometry-puzzle.png
[4] /boston/2016/05/11/thumb-geometry.jpg
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