Distances.

[Alan Kay]

How old is your son?

I did a very simple Newton's algorithm in the Etoys. This is a good 
project for 12-15 year olds. It is not very long and it shows them 
yet another way to think of feedback and searching and averaging.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:09 PM +1300 12/17/01, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>My son has just learnt about Pythagoras at School.
>
>Is there a way to do square roots in the E-Toy environment?
>
>Otherwise
>
>What is the "Official Way"  to discover the distance between two points in
>the E-Toy environment?
>
>
>TNX 10^6
>
>Sincerely etc.,
>Christopher Sawtell.


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