Aluminum trigonometry

I ran into an interesting trigonometry problem a few weeks ago, when I was working on the cable pole installation.  The problem was simple enough: extend the pole such that the trash trucks wouldn’t snag it, thus ripping it down.  But the real question was: how tall must I extend it to get adequate clearance?  Indeed.

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Imagining the tenth dimension

This will blow your mind. Do you, like me, ever wonder what the fourth, fifth, and upper dimensions are like?

Well, here’s a good layman’s explanation, by Rob Bryanton. Just mind-blowing!