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|    Michael Uplawski to Phil Hobbs    |
|    Re: [rainbow] what's beyond the edges?    |
|    30 Jun 25 07:29:26    |
      From: michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu              Phil Hobbs wrote in sci.optics:       >>Or maybe I am just nuts.              >That’s a solid angle of       >       >2pi*(1-cos(42 deg)) =1.614 steradians,       >       >which is big, but still less than 13% of the sphere, so the inside is       >smaller than the outside.              Perfect. Geometry was none of the solutions that I could think of.              >Or do you have something else in mind?              Probably not. TY.       I will find a way to express the facts with frugal (rural) words.              Have a nice week, all.              Michael       --       “Museums are nothing but a pack of lies       and the people who make a business out of art       are mostly swindlers.”       (Pablo Picasso)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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