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  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-27 15:51 -0500
    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 18:03 -0500
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2024-03-28 16:16 -0700
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-29 13:56 -0500
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-)   tl;dr rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-03-29 01:26 +0000
      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-31 19:40 -0500
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-03-31 18:15 -0700
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-31 22:22 -0500
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-01 07:00 -0700
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-31 20:23 -0500
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2024-03-31 18:24 -0700
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-01 10:13 +0000
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-01 07:14 -0700
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-01 12:29 -0500
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-01 10:54 -0700
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-01 14:55 -0500
              Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-01 13:11 -0700
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-01 13:40 -0500
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-01 13:06 -0700
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-02 21:36 +0000
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2024-04-02 15:29 -0700
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-02 19:46 -0500
        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-04 18:37 -0500
          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-13 01:50 -0500
            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-24 13:53 -0500
              Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-24 19:25 +0000
                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-04-24 15:30 -0400
                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-25 00:23 -0500
                  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-25 14:36 -0500
                    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-25 20:04 +0000
                      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-25 15:15 -0500
                        Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-25 21:23 +0000
                          Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-25 17:59 -0500
                            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-26 12:51 -0500
                            Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-26 12:37 -0500
                              Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-26 20:13 +0000
                                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-04-26 16:17 -0400
                                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-26 15:48 -0500
                                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-04-26 22:41 +0000
                                  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-04-27 10:45 +0000
                                    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-27 12:08 -0500
                                  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2024-04-27 08:42 -0400
                                    Re: A Problem To Solve :-) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-04-27 20:09 +0000
                      Re: A Problem To Solve :-) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-04-26 03:22 +0000
              Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-26 14:48 -0500
              Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-04-28 13:11 -0500
                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-05-06 17:58 -0500
                  Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-05-12 18:13 -0500
                    Re: A Problem To Solve :- Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-05-16 21:54 -0500
                      Re: A Problem To Solve :- Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-05-18 15:47 -0500

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#886960

On 4/27/24 05:45, Farley Flud wrote:
> On 26 Apr 2024 22:41:38 GMT, rbowman wrote:
> 
>>
>> https://www.solosophie.com/hemingway-cats/
>>
> 
> Go and stroke your pussy.
> 
> GNU/Linux is for REAL MEN, and neither you or Hemingway
> qualify.
> 
> 


I may stick my dick into Gentoo when I get time. Not knowing jack about 
Linux is dangerous without Windows 10.

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#886953

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:13:26 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
>
>> Nope.  Check out the common reality:
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_lady
>
> https://www.solosophie.com/hemingway-cats/

A song about man's favorite er, "catkin", by R. Crumb and his band:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUWfOU4mwo

   My Girls .....

Apparently the original came about in the 1930s; also on youtube.

-- 
You will become rich and famous unless you don't.

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#886964

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:42:13 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> A song about man's favorite er, "catkin", by R. Crumb and his band:
> 
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUWfOU4mwo

Sign in to confirm your age?  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E5QNrG7b8A

Brown was a little politer than Lucille Bogan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4MPdvnkC0

but there were a lot of double entendre blues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVfqNCpcL2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGypxhxCE5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcq2Y7YI14

I don't see it in their catalog but I'm pretty sure I have a cassette from 
Shanachie that is all raunchy blues from the '20s and '30s. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaQW6JXa3l0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzWMpvME5YI

Unlike Kriti Noem some people love their little poodles.

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#886917

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:04:28 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

> In modern times, there are excellent rodent control measures.  There is
> no need for cats except for severely repressed females (cat women)
> and other highly neurotic human beings.

Tell that to the semi-feral Manx that hangs out around here. 

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#886937

On 4/24/24 13:53, Physfitfreak wrote:
> And when the black and white got surprised, he ran to hide somewhere, 
> which triggered the gray one to run after him, and the two other cats 
> run after both gray and the black and white cats. So suddenly a huge 
> noisy quarrel began and all four began running and jumping and fighting 
> and hitting stuff around the living room, throwing them down, etc.


Kind of like this but with four cats, not two, and numbers among cat 
reactions do not add, they multiply!:

https://streamable.com/qly6lq

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#886981

On 4/24/24 13:53, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> 
> He then looked for the hands and found them and inserted them back on 
> the face of the clock. He chose, for now, to position them at 12 o'clock 
> noon and adjust the fucking time and the clock itself later.
> 
> Unbeknownst to him, he had inserted the hands in wrong order, 
> effectively interchanging the roles of the two hands.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


Physfit then walked around and patiently removed other stuff around the 
living room that were knocked around, and placed them nicely where they 
belonged. Then he, one by one, showed love to all four cats and made 
them sure he was not angry at them, the result of which had always been 
visibly easy to see cause they also in turn, invariably, showed a sign 
that they loved him back and aren't angry at him. This could be as 
little as a quick short licking of their front lips (the "no, but thank 
you for offering" reaction when you offer something to them to eat and 
they're either not hungry or the thing is a bit below the level at which 
a food for cat should be), or a fake yawning (saying, "I'm already over 
it and everything is fine here"), or slowly narrowing their eyelids and 
lowering their beautiful heads (saying, "I'm sorry, but it happens 
sometimes"), or lifting their little chins up to receive a bit more of 
that touch under their chins as well (the way a male cat "hugs" human), 
along with many other ways they could respond back reassuringly.

Such reactions as suddenly go full force jumping around is of course an 
amazing defense mechanism that when triggered, goes into effect 
automatically until enough time has passed to collect information to 
zero in on what the threat is, if any. And that's when, if there is not 
an actual threat, it immediately ends. That reaction results from 
advanced brain developments that immediately senses that possibilities 
are endless and therefore preparation for every scenario is due. A lot 
of life forms have that but in various degrees and never as advanced and 
matured as in cats.

Those miserable little home-tyrants who could only stand dogs, NEVER 
cats, couldn't find that feature in their dogs. Compared to cats, dogs 
were like lame stupid creatures who had to wait _seconds_ to make the 
threats coming in sink in, before similar mechanism in them would go 
into effect.

Physfit, knew that with practice, human also could get there and create 
such abilities almost to the level that he could observe in cats. A 
couple of forms of martial arts that were developed by Modern Humans, 
and not the early humans of Europe, aimed at creating that level of 
reaction by a lot of practice and through many years of effort. Human 
was THAT much backward and miserable compared to life forms like cats in 
that regard. Cats were born with it, and we had to put at the least 3 
years of multiple hours of practice per day, every day, into it, to 
perhaps some of us get there where cats so naturally, comfortably and 
gracefully, were.

After that necessary _duty_ was carried out, the one that a 
home-little-tyrant boy could never even IMAGINE in his entire limited 
life, Physfit then got busy with other chores, beginning with cooking 
cat food!

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#887284

On 4/28/24 13:11, Physfitfreak wrote:
> After that necessary _duty_ was carried out, the one that a 
> home-little-tyrant boy could never even IMAGINE in his entire limited 
> life, Physfit then got busy with other chores, beginning with cooking 
> cat food!


Cat food companies are thieves, extorting money from cat owners, just 
like veterinarians. 100% thieves. But among them you can still find one 
or at the most two companies that put a somewhat more level-headed price 
on their products if you buy them in bulk. And in bulk, will have to be 
in the dried form of cat food.

Their largest size of cat food, 40 to 50 lbs, has a price of what other 
cat food companies offer for their 5 lb bags of dry cat food. This makes 
the bulk ones 8 times cheaper, and it is still expensive but there is no 
other choice left for someone with multiple cats.

It the ingredients aren't optimal of course. So Physfit had had to cook 
and prepare his own version of cat food, along offering the bulk cheap 
version to the cats.

The most inexpensive form of meat in the USA is chicken. But cats need 
more than just one type of meet. They need a variety in meat they 
consume. Pork, fish, liver, etc. And some of the vitamins should be 
added to their meals as well.

In their dry food, if at all, there's little meat and that's almost 
always chicken byproducts. It's not bad but it's never enough. And of 
course there's vegetables and seeds that Physfit had to cook just to an 
extent that made their structure and nutrients get closest to that which 
a cat would find inside a mouse or bird's stomach.

So it was involved, but was well worth it. And after all was done, it 
matched or exceeded the quality of the best and most expensive cat food 
available to buy, with about a tenth of the price.

So Physfit, got busy preparing cat food, and after that rested by 
getting on usenet, cursing the motherfucking Nazis in in there who had 
the nerve to pretend they weren't Nazis.

Right after, he turned and looked at the pendulum clock to see what time 
it was. He checked it against the time that computer showed at the lower 
right corner on the screen. It matched perfectly. But soon he got sleepy 
and hit the sack.



If at the time that he inserted the minute and hour hands back into the 
clock at 12:00 noon position, the actual time was also 12:00 noon, find 
out how long it took for him to prepare cat food and curse Nazis in 
usenet, total.

(not that hard but not trivial either)

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#887461

On 5/6/24 17:58, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> 
> Right after, he turned and looked at the pendulum clock to see what time 
> it was. He checked it against the time that computer showed at the lower 
> right corner on the screen. It matched perfectly. But soon he got sleepy 
> and hit the sack.
> 
> 


Physfit kept hearing people talking. He opened his eyes and found out 
he's at the Yemeni missile launching compound! He straightened himself 
up and sat up as if nothing had happened. But the few Houthis arguing in 
the room were now aware that he was up and smiled and said he must've 
been tired to have slept a full half hour on that uncomfortable armchair.

Physfit:  "I must've! You have no ideas what dreams I had either."

Then on a hunch he stood up and went to the window and looked outside to 
see if the Long John Silvers down there across that street was also in 
the dream or was real. He saw no Long John Silvers there! He smiled and 
came back and sat down on that same chair.

Physfit:  "You guys don't know of a Long John Silvers fish and chips 
store across the street, do you? :) "

Houthis:  "What's that? Never heard of it."

Physfit confirmed to himself that it was then all dream. Dammit. Then 
Houthis had not beheaded the Nazi previous owner of that store after 
all. But he then began thinking whether he was still in yet another 
layer of dream. He had not finished his search for tools or ways to find 
this out, when the Houthis turned to him and said:

Houthis:  "Your codes for hitting up to five flying objects with just 
one missile has worked great. We're now devising a way to hit Israeli 
ships when they're fully protected by the American Navy ships not that 
far from us. Would you think you could help us in that?"

Physfit:  "I have to see the issue to know that."

Houthi:   "We have written a code to jam the American Navy's radar's 
report of the location of our missile in air on its way to the ship, 
without the Navy's noticing that something is wrong. We've worked out 
the problem fully, in fact, but with one exception. We're still at a 
loss for a relatively minor issue. In the codes we intend to use, we are 
dependent on finding a number that is a perfect square itself, but if 
you subtract 5 from it, you'd also get a perfect square, and also, if 
you add 5 to it instead, it would yet give another perfect square. We 
don't know if such a number exists, and if it does, what that number 
would be."

Physfit told to himself, "I'd better begin working on that right away 
before I wake up back in my house, or in Holaku's Court for that matter!"

Physfit: "I'll work on it right away and will let you know. "

So he reached down under the coffee table into his backpack and took out 
his Aspire One mini laptop dedicated to DOS with qBASIC on it, and began 
thinking on the problem. A few short minutes into it, he found the 
problem just the type of problem he'd love to work on. So he vigorously 
worked on it with great focus as well as enthusiasm.

Half hour later, he told the Houthis what that number was. They 
appreciated that and got right away busy implementing their code on 
their anti-ship missile.

Within only the rest of that day, in fact, Houthis sank two Israeli 
ships as a result. Whatever code it was that they'd created, together 
with that special number, had done their jobs right :)

What was that number and how did Physfit find it?

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#887590 — Re: A Problem To Solve :-

On 5/12/24 18:13, Physfitfreak wrote:

> 
> Within only the rest of that day, in fact, Houthis sank two Israeli 
> ships as a result. Whatever code it was that they'd created, together 
> with that special number, had done their jobs right :)
> 
> What was that number and how did Physfit find it?
> 
> 
> 
> 



Physfit, thought to himself, "I don't even have an idea how long it is 
that I haven't eaten. Surfing through all these layers of realities 
makes it impossible for me to find out. So perhaps I can eat right away!"

Physfit:  "Is there any restaurant around here?

Houthis:  "Plenty of them. Just go out to the street that you see from 
this window and walk along, and choose :) "

Physfit:  "Well, last time I thought I ate in one of them I ended up in 
your enemy's country, USA!"

Houthis:  "We don't remember you having gone outside this compound. You 
came here about 10 am today and have been here since!... "

Physfit:  "Oh, I see. That dream I had while sleeping on this chair 
explains it."

Houthis:  "None of the restaurants out there sell pork or alcoholic 
beverages. We hope you don't mind that."

Physfit:  "I don't mind that one bit :) "

Physfit stood up and walked to the door and got out of the compound. 
Quite contrary to what he remembered from the dream, the weather was 
pretty chilly! He began walking to the street, and then from there along 
it, telling himself he must enter the first eating place he finds before 
freezing his ears off.

A couple of minutes later he realized the temperature was just too low 
and the breeze too biting for him to continue like that. But he noticed 
he had reached an apparel shop which seemed to be offering some clothes 
in addition to what Arabs wore. He entered the store and went straight 
to the section what sold European style clothing.

Freezing cold pain in his ears were already tapering off. He found the 
pullover section and zeroed in for waist 32 inch, sleeve 34 inch 
V-necks. Saw a nice thick 100% woolen with wonderful Yemeni Sitara 
patterns and immediately fell in love with it. It had a striking 
resemblance to the yearly colorful sweaters his mother knitted for him 
all along his childhood and teen years, to help him cope with full three 
months of bitterly frigid winters of Tehran. Took it to the cashier, 
intending to wear it right after paying for it.

Cashier said, "19 Dinars please". Physfit took out his wallet and 
discovered that the only form of money he carried were several bills of 
3 Dinars each. He placed 7 of them on the counter.

The cashier said, "Unfortunately all I have at the moment is 5 Dinar 
bills. Any way you could pay the exact amount?"

Physfit looked inside wallet for the credit card but found none! It 
must've also been part of that dream.

Physfit:  "All I have, also, are 3 Dinar bills."

Cashier:  "... Hmm... How many 3 Dinar bills do you have?

Physfit began to count them.

Physfit:  "40 of them. All 3 Dinars each. But, how many 5 Dinar bills do 
_you_ have?"

They both smiled, noticing both were contemplating on resolving this by 
the same method. Cashier began counting his bills.

Cashier:  "I have 20 of them."

So with a little bit of loud thinking on both sides, they found a way to 
pay the exact 19 Dinars for the pullover. Physfit wore it over his shirt 
right away, removed the price tag, and thanked and stepped outside in 
the freezing cold feeling a bit better prepared than what just a thin 
summer shirt could provide.

Two hours later, he was back in the compound with his stomach having a 
ball with the course of Mandi he had had, complete with that tangy side 
of Fahsa. It was like his stomach was showing the middle finger to all 
the goo-ridden crap-looking tasteless food he could put his hands on in 
the USA.

Physfit noticed the nice pullover again and got a bit curious. He took 
out his notebook and began jotting down some numbers and stuff. In about 
5 minutes he knew exactly in how many different ways he was able to pay 
for the 19 Dinar pullover a few hours back.

Show the work that determines in how many different ways Physfit could 
pay for that pullover.

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#887642 — Re: A Problem To Solve :-

On 5/16/24 21:54, Physfitfreak wrote:
> Physfit noticed the nice pullover again and got a bit curious. He took 
> out his notebook and began jotting down some numbers and stuff. In about 
> 5 minutes he knew exactly in how many different ways he was able to pay 
> for the 19 Dinar pullover a few hours back.


Physfit was still within the two-hour period of lunch, therefore he took 
advantage of such rare moments in his life to ask for some coffee. He 
was served a cup of excellent Arabian coffee the likes of which the 
Americans had never tasted in their entire limited, slaving lives. 
Simply out of their reach. Unknown to them.

Then, you know what happened, don't you. That coffee thing kicked in bad 
... And since a few other Houthi scientists as well had had some of that 
same coffee with him, they all got into a frenzy of excited talking 
about their projects and the successes and the problems they were still 
experiencing. One of such issues got Physfit's attention cause he knew 
something about.

Houthis had developed a missile capable of delivering and detonating 
nukes of fission type. For reasons of efficiency in production and the 
technology that they already had at hand and developed so far, the 
uranium core pieces, after coming together shortly before detonation, 
could form two different types of cylinders; one with a square 
cross-section, and the other with hexagonal cross-section. Other choices 
had not yet gotten developed.

The total mass of the two forms were equal. But Houthis were looking for 
ways to have _both_ options before those pieces would come together, 
based on what the target was. For some target areas they wanted the 
pieces to form a square cylinder, and for some other types of target 
areas, a regular hexagonal cylinder. This would make them use the power 
of the bomb more judicially and effectively.

On the other hand, the matter of precision in the various sizes in those 
pieces was absolutely critical, otherwise the bombs would not detonate 
optimally and in a totally predictable way. Therefore a very high degree 
of accuracy in cutting such pieces was required.

They had developed the machinery to do just that, but they needed to 
give the software running it, the exact form of sizes and angles 
involved, not just approximations of them. In other words, it was the 
computer running the machinery that decided the optimum accuracy, and it 
needed to be fed the exact form of what the length and angles were.

For instance, it wouldn't work right, if you'd give it 1.414213562, or 
even 1.414213562373095048802 to mean square root of 2. You would have to 
give the computer sqrt(2), and computer then would decide to what level 
of accuracy to interpret and use the number. This was so because tiny 
inaccuracies in sizes of lengths or angles had to be compensated for by 
judicial use of the ac-curacies elsewhere.

In other words, Physfit understood that their issue boiled down to the 
problem of how to divide up a square into minimum number of pieces, in a 
way that same pieces would then be either reassembled into the original 
square, or, they could get reassembled into a hexagon of the exact same 
surface area. This was the issue that those Houthis were heatedly 
discussing and got Physfit's attention.

Based on previous experience in sci.physics usenet forum, where he had 
proposed and solved that problem a few years earlier, Physfit knew this 
problem had a nice solution that would provide the exact sizes and 
angles of various cuts on the square, to yield a regular hexagon of 
identical area after same pieces were arranged differently.

Physfit:  "This problem of yours has a solution."

Houthis suddenly went silent and turned to him.

Houthis:  "Are you sure of that? Remember that we need exact expressions 
of lengths and angles of the dissected pieces involved, not just 
measurements made on existing samples using micrometers or protractors. 
We all know how the square should be dissected into minimal number of 
pieces to yield a hexagon with them, but this issue is about knowing the 
exact forms of such lengths and angles, and not an approximation of them."

Physfit:  "I understand, and this problem has a solution because I 
solved it in 2020 a couple of months after Covid lock-down began."

Houthis:  "Great!... All we need is those exact dimensions and specs! 
Everything else is already done. How soon can you provide them to us? 
Say, the square has a side of d. We need the dimensions and angles of 
the dissections exactly expressed as functions of d only. "

Physfit:  "Well, as you must've experienced it yourselves, it is not a 
trivial problem. In 2020 it took me about a week to solve and derive the 
exact dimensions, starting from zero. I would think it will take, now, a 
couple of days, if not sooner, to re-derive those numbers, cause I have 
at least some vague memories about what strategies and methods took me 
to the solutions."

Houthis:  "A couple of days is great! May we ask you to proceed and do it?"

Physfit:  "Absolutely. Is there a motel of some sort around here? I need 
to first get a few hours of real sleep. A nap on a chair won't do it."

Houthis:  "We are under British and American daily bombardments. We 
would not recommend using a motel, or staying outside of this compound 
for more than a couple of hours. This compound itself has very safe 
underground rooms and offices for our scientists and engineers to spend 
their time in while busy with their projects. You're quite welcome to 
use one."

Physfit:  "Deal! I'm going to need some stationery items."

Houthis:  "No computer?"

Physfit:  "Not really. In case needed, I do have my own Aspire One mini 
laptop dedicated to DOS with qBASIC on it, in my backpack."

He then added,

Physfit:  "I also want a flask of that same coffee we just had, but with 
no cardamom added. I'll be outside my eating period and do not wish to 
trigger my insulin production system."

Houthis:  "How long will you go without eating?..."

Physfit:  "If nothing unusual happens to me, about 48 hours. I should 
have your specs in term of d by then."

Houthis:  "Great. We'll see you when your next eating period begins 
then. What would you want us prepare for your meal at that time?"

Physfit:  "Same food I had in that restaurant 2 hours back. A full 
course of Mandi with two bowls of Fahsa on the side, please :) "

Houthis:  "Excellent choices. Consider it done. Will see you in 48 hours 
or so."

Physfit was led to a few levels lower down in that compound and into a 
corridor along which various doors had the Arabic names of various 
scientists on them, and a few Persian names and one Chinese name among 
them as well."

The place resembled a typical American research center where you'd read 
familiar names of scientists on the doors as you walked along such 
corridors, but in this case, in that corridor, none of those names were 
familiar to Physfit. He'd been away from such activities for decades.

Two days later, he stepped out of his room, fresh, showered, rested, and 
clean, and hungry for that Mandi and Fahsa like he couldn't even dare to 
think of it, discovering that someone had placed a name on his door 
reading, "Dr. Physfit Freak."

"CRAP!", he said out loud. "This sucker cro-magnon title doesn't want to 
leave my fucking life to myself."

"NOT EVEN In YEMEN!..."

"Not even in some quirky bizarre dream. Fuck you cro-magnons :-( "

"Fuck you for that!"

In his hand he had a few pages of drawings and calculations, the last 
page of it giving the exact derived dimensions of the dissected parts in 
terms of a general d, the square's side.

Show the work for deriving those exact forms of dimensions and angles, 
each in terms of a function of d only; d being the side of the square.

(not trivial)

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