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and the direction of the total step is about 60 degrees off, leaving sqrt(3)/2 step in the right direction.


If your direction is 60 degrees off then the right-direction component is 1/2, not sqrt(3)/2. (You move sqrt(3)/2 in the perpendicular direction.)


this is what happens trying to remember trig after 30 hours on call.




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