marcmagus: Me playing cribbage in regency attire (0)
Magus ([personal profile] marcmagus) wrote in [personal profile] sorcyress 2007-12-14 02:10 am (UTC)

Interesting. I got my upper bound of x < 70° in a completely different way, having to do with the fact that AD < BE. So I agree with your finding.

Running headlong down the trail of extrapolating information about the relative lengths of different line segments from known angles has yielded x < 65°, but I'm a lot less confident I didn't mess anything up here.

I haven't come up with anything which gives me a lower bound on x other than x > 0° yet. An insight on that could be heartening.

I also played with bisecting <ACB (or raising an altitude to intersect C). Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to generate anything I can use.

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