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<font face="serif">Students -- someone asked about the calculation
of the diagonal. It is the diagonal THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE
BOX, not the diagonal of one side. As such, standard rules of
Euclidean geometry apply.<br>
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<img style="vertical-align: middle"
src="cid:part1.07000909.06050101@mercer.edu" alt="$d =
\sqrt{l^2+w^2+h^2}$"><br>
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where d is the diagonal and <img style="vertical-align: middle"
src="cid:part2.06090504.08030306@mercer.edu" alt="$l$">, <img
style="vertical-align: middle"
src="cid:part3.06000300.01060604@mercer.edu" alt="$w$">, and <img
style="vertical-align: middle"
src="cid:part4.03030402.06000809@mercer.edu" alt="$h$"> are the
length, width and height of the box respectively.<br>
<br>
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Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pounds_aj@mercer.edu">pounds_aj@mercer.edu</a>)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University, Macon, GA 31207 (478) 301-5627
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj">http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj</a>
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