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Quizzical Pursuit
The Architecture Puzzler
Created by Dave Guadagni
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Last Week's Puzzler
Question
If you double the diameter of a circle what have you done to its area? If you build a 6-in-12 pitch roof how steep is it in degrees?
Answer
If you double the diameter of a circle, its area increases four times. A 6-in-12 roof is 26.6 degrees.
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2000, Dave Guadagni.
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The arithmetic of geometry.
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