Math Question!

[Xtowers]

Does anybody know the compliment to a 43 degree angle?

[nimby]

You're such a cute angle!

For it to really work you need to spell it "compliment" for the play on words to work =-p

(For those of you that don't get it, a 43degree angel is "acute")

[Postman]

lol, if ur actually looking for the mathematical answer, it would be two degrees.... i think lol. is that right? i'm so smart, i'm going into AP Calc and Stat lol. even though that was a geometry question. but i'm kinda ruining the joke now, i'm gonna stop.

[nimby]

How would the complement of 43degrees be 2??

[Xtowers]

nimby said:

You're such a cute angle!

For it to really work you need to spell it "compliment" for the play on words to work =-p

(For those of you that don't get it, a 43degree angel is "acute")

Correct! One could also say this:

"My you are looking very a-cute today."

Oh and my bad on the spelling. I'll change it right away. But hey, check this out. I was checking to make sure I had the spelling right, when I stumbled upon this (found at: www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/complement.html):

Originally these two spellings were used interchangeably, but they have come to be distinguished from each other in modern times. Most of the time the word people intend is “compliment": nice things said about someone ("She paid me the compliment of admiring the way I shined my shoes.”). “Complement,” much less common, has a number of meanings associated with matching or completing. Complements supplement each other, each adding something the others lack, so we can say that "Alice’s love for entertaining and Mike’s love for washing dishes complement each other.” Remember, if you’re not making nice to someone, the word is “complement.”

I didn't know they could be used interchangeably, back in the day anyways.

And the complement to a 43 degree angle would be (uh, lets see, checking math forum...) 90 degrees minus 43 degrees which equals (um, hmm, *whips out calculator*) 47 degrees!

...just kidding about the calculator.

[Tormentedsaw]

Well, aren't we all glad elven learned something in geometry?

[Xtowers]

lol, he's got the right idea. Just the wrong angle.

[Postman]

yep... thought it was complement with 45 degrees and supplement with 90 degrees. but now i remember. besides, geometry was in freshman (right spelling?) year, i'm gonna be a senior in a couple of weeks. it was a long time ago.