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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I repent! Now I think h is not (5/2)^0.5 = 1.58. Now I think h = 2^.5 = 1.41 is the correct root.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I calculated it, ended up with a quadratic equation. Now I realize only the square root 2 root makes sense. My nanoGeezer is still in progress:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=205 height=173 style='width:2.1354in;height:1.802in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D28A9E.C94F50D0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>After my first cut, shooting for h = 1.58:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=182 height=225 style='width:1.8958in;height:2.3437in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01D28A9E.C94F50D0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My surgeon friend was a mechanical engineering major at the college we attended. He did some calcs and somehow convinced himself that h=2 is the right answer. It isn’t but I wouldn’t argue with him because he is about an order of magnitude smarter than I am.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=275 height=206 style='width:2.8645in;height:2.1458in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D28A9E.C94F50D0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>He ended up with this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=252 height=286 style='width:2.625in;height:2.9791in' id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D28A9E.C94F50D0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Five grown men tossing a foam rubber nanoGeezer was quite the spectacle, but fortunately none of our brides recorded the event for preposterity, so there is no video evidence of the event. In our world, if it ain’t on YouTube, it never happened.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am now convinced this higher-density foam rubber won’t work, but I have another idea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>