Another maths question

[Sunglasses Ron]

What is the perimeter of a building that is 690,000 square feet?

Thanks.

[Silent1]

Sunglasses Ron said:

What is the perimeter of a building that is 690,000 square feet?

Thanks.

Lots

HTH

Also maths fail.

Edited by Silent1 on Monday 13th September 01:48

[Sunglasses Ron]

Silent1 said:

Lots

HTH

Not really.

[Torquey]

3322.6 feet?

Providing it's all on one level...

Edited by Torquey on Monday 13th September 01:56

[Egg Chaser]

3322.65 feet. I think.

(Probably wrong)

Edit- beaten to it

Edited by Egg Chaser on Monday 13th September 01:58

[Sunglasses Ron]

Thanks, so that's about 0.6 of a mile, right?

[Egg Chaser]

Sunglasses Ron said:

Thanks, so that's about 0.6 of a mile, right?

Ish. About 0.62 I think.

[otolith]

Depends what shape it is.

[Sunglasses Ron]

otolith said:

Depends what shape it is.

A great big rectangle warehouse, it doesnt have to be exact. I'm wanting to know because as a way of keeping fit I'm walking briskly around it, twice.

[ArtVandelay]

If it's a square, then it's the root of 690,000 multiplied by 4

690000^0.5 = 830.662386

830.662386*4 = 3322.65ft

[Sunglasses Ron]

ArtVandelay said:

If it's a square, then it's the root of 690,000 multiplied by 4

690000^0.5 = 830.662386

830.662386*4 = 3322.65ft

A great big rectangle

[Egg Chaser]

Sunglasses Ron said:

ArtVandelay said:

If it's a square, then it's the root of 690,000 multiplied by 4

690000^0.5 = 830.662386

830.662386*4 = 3322.65ft

A great big rectangle

A rectangle will be a bigger perimeter that a square. I think.

[ArtVandelay]

Egg Chaser said:

Sunglasses Ron said:

ArtVandelay said:

If it's a square, then it's the root of 690,000 multiplied by 4

690000^0.5 = 830.662386

830.662386*4 = 3322.65ft

A great big rectangle

A rectangle will be a bigger perimeter that a square. I think.

Quite possible For example, say a square has an area of 4m^2 and a rectangle has the same.

For the square, the perimeter will be 2+2+2+2 = 8m

For the rectangle the perimeter will be 4+1+4+1 = 10m

Anyway, you're getting a decent run

[otolith]

If you install google Earth, you can measure the lengths of paths on it.

[tim the pool man]

Egg Chaser said:

Sunglasses Ron said:

ArtVandelay said:

If it's a square, then it's the root of 690,000 multiplied by 4

690000^0.5 = 830.662386

830.662386*4 = 3322.65ft

A great big rectangle

A rectangle will be a bigger perimeter that a square. I think.

Yes it will. A square will have the shortest perimeter for a given area, a rectangle could (in theory) be a million miles long and very thin with the same area.

[550Hep]

Try www.mapmyrun.com

[Hugo a Gogo]

circular building would have smallest perimeter

[deeen]

A circular building wouldn't be a rectangle.

It could be 690,000 long by 1 wide, giving perimiter 1,380,002

Or it could be 862.5 x 800 giving 3325

Or anything else, really... that's why you're not getting a straight answer

HTH

Edited by deeen on Monday 13th September 08:44

[tim the pool man]

Hugo a Gogo said:

circular building would have smallest perimeter

yes of course, for some reason I was thinking only in straight lines... which makes a change

[fido]

if it has fractal dimensions e.g. snowflake shaped then it could have an even larger perimeter, unless you define perimeter as the largest concave polygon that will enclose said area.