Swap

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To freely share and distribute as much information as I can.
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I like to talk about knitting, philosophy, mathematics, language, literature, culture, gender, cooking, vegetarianism, love, sex.
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Pauca sed matura. Also: Too much talk, not enough code.
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I signed with blood, I can't just walk away and never come back.

Geometry challenge!

In this diagram, the blue lines are of lengths 6, 8, and 12 respectively, and the red lines are all of the same unknown length and parallel to the blue lines. What is the common length of all the red lines?

The following noders are awesome and have solved the problem, in the order that they've submitted their solution to me:

  1. Gorgonzola
  2. Protective Samurai
  3. in10se
  4. OldMiner
  5. Mouesh
  6. kthejoker

You can still solve this while I'm gone, promise to update the list when I get back.

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