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Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius by flaubere on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:11AM (#27207477)
Not sure why you are asking this in this thread, but the implication is that the bullets are fired from ground level, not necessarily horizontally. The maximum distance a projectile can travel when fired from ground level is the basic first result of ballistics.
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Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius by tyleo on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @08:57AM (#27207929)
I think I understand. From height 0 figure out what gun angle gives the largest distance and then calculate the area of the circle with that distance as radius.
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Re:The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius by xNeil on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:47AM (#27209401)
In the JEE, you generally assume the range to be the distance the projectile covers before reaching the launch height again, unless specified otherwise.
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