Re: How to compute triangle base/altitude intersection

Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote:

An altitude of a triangle passes through one of the vertices and
is perpendicular to the opposite side. I don't know what the word for
"altitude" is in French, but I would expect it would be a cognate to
the English word "altitude".

-Arthur,
Babelfish suggests "l'altitude"

That means it found a French word with the same spelling. Otherwise it would
not have add the contraction for 'le'.

(I'm not just making this up; I once worked on the translation code BF
uses.)

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