Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

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Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby almahdi » Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:53 am

What, as read one's scientific explanation, is "The toe length of that triangle is to be a factor in determining the x value" supposed to mean ?
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Doitsujin » Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:15 am

Most likely "toe length" should read "top length."
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Cainntear » Mon Feb 06, 2023 12:42 pm

almahdi wrote:What, as read one's scientific explanation, is "The toe length of that triangle is to be a factor in determining the x value" supposed to mean ?

Without a lot more context, perhaps even including a JPEG, it's impossible to know. I am 90% confident that it's an error. Knowing whether the author is a native speaker or not would help, and knowing whether that's the original source or a quote that may have introduced an error would also help.

But what is the x value? What triangle are we talking about -- general triangles or a specific one?

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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Le Baron » Mon Feb 06, 2023 1:59 pm

I thought at first a misspelling of TOA, but Doitsujin's explanation is more likely (and makes more sense).
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Cainntear » Mon Feb 06, 2023 4:12 pm

Le Baron wrote:I thought at first a misspelling of TOA, but Doitsujin's explanation is more likely (and makes more sense).

I don't know... Do triangle's have a "top"? Do they have a "length"? Their sides each have a length, which means you can count up the total length of all sides, but Doitsujin's explanation really doesn't make the sentence make any more sense. As I see it, until the OP gives more context any attempt to answer the question is going to be a stab in the dark...
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:30 pm

I read it as the length of the bottom leg (or cathetus) of a right-angled triangle, e.g. the side called b in this image:
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Cainntear » Mon Feb 06, 2023 7:12 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:I read it as the length of the bottom leg (or cathetus) of a right-angled triangle, e.g. the side called b in this image:
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But that's not good English, so it's absolutely not safe to make assumptions given the lack of information provided.
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby leosmith » Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:54 am

almahdi wrote:What, as read one's scientific explanation, is "The toe length of that triangle is to be a factor in determining the x value" supposed to mean ?
I think it's another name for the base, as in A = hb/2.
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby Doitsujin » Tue Feb 07, 2023 8:27 am

Of course leosmith and jeff_lindqvist could also be right. Maybe it's a triangle superimposed on a foot as in the following image taken from a Skillshare post.
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Hopefully, the OP will provide more details.
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Re: Anyone outright understand "toe length" ?

Postby leosmith » Tue Feb 07, 2023 1:06 pm

I take it back; I was thinking of this, rather than a triangle specifically. It is spelled tow, not toe, and carbon fiber material can certainly be used to make a triangular part, where tow length comes into play. Maybe that's what the OP was talking about, but we may never know.
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