Several times I have been asked this question, so I hunted around and found a wonderful little calculator which can do this and much more.It is called Project Calc. It is a regular calculator. Then it is a special calculator that will add, subtract, multiply and divide inches, feet and fraction...
Don in Winnipeg wanted to make a wooden walkway. He wanted to fan the boards out at the 90 degree corner, but couldn't figure out how to calculate the angle to cut the boards to make them fit.
The first important reflection was that the center point of this fanning out should not be right in the...