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Suppose you’re in a boring meeting and you start doodling. You draw a circle, and then you draw a triangle on the outside of that circle. Next you draw a circle through the vertices of the triangle, and draw a square outside that. Then you draw a circle through the

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The Functional Depth of Docker and Docker Compose

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Chris’ Corner: Esoteric Stuff in CSS

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Rapidly convergent series for ellipse perimeter

The previous post looked at two simple approximations for the perimeter of an ellipse. Approximations are necessary since the perimeter of an ellipse cannot be expressed as an elementary function of the axes. Kepler noted in 1609 that you could approximate the perimeter of an ellipse as the perimeter of

Enterprise 2024.4: Demonstrating and improving community impact

In the latest Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise release, you'll see reporting capabilities and insights that help demonstrate community impact. Microsoft customers can also rejoice: OverflowAI now includes an Auto-Answer App for Microsoft Teams.

Kepler’s ellipse perimeter approximations

In 1609, Kepler remarked that the perimeter of an ellipse with semiaxes a and b could be approximated either as P1 ≈ 2π(ab)½ or P2 ≈ π(a + b). In other words, you can approximate the perimeter of an ellipse by the circumference of a circle of radius r where

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