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Thursday, July 01, 2004
 
::NORTH VERSUS SOUTH::

Last night, as I walked away from the museum at about 8:30 PM, I crafted a geometry lesson from the sky. My eyes were immediately drawn to strange bright yellow light. To my north, the low-slung stratus clouds glowed with the sunset's warmth. Their lines, in their fuzzy, zero-slope flatness, made me think, "y=6, y=7, y=9, y=10, y=13." See?


Condensation meets function.

Then, walking to my car, I spied the moon in the southern sky, peeking at me from behind some gauzy cirrus, and I thought, "(-12, 32)." See again?


Single solution.

Comments:
Where's the origin of your coordinate plane?
 

Or does (x+12)^2 + (y-32)^2 = r^2, since the moon is less of a point and more of a circle? Hehe. Just Car-teasin' you a little. :)
 

It looks like a rather noisy value of 13.
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God, I love this; polymaths doing many maths.
 

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