<div dir="ltr">i would say Yes. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Mike Jing <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com" target="_blank">gravitys.rainbow.cn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">V223.5-15, P225.36-226.5  Rain bats against the glass, lemon and<br>
myrtle trees outside shake in the wind. Over croissants, strawberry<br>
jam, real butter, real coffee, she has him running through the flight<br>
profile in terms of wall temperature and Nusselt heart-transfer<br>
coefficients, computing in his head from Reynolds numbers she flashes<br>
him . . . equations of motion, damping, restoring moments . . .<br>
methods of computing Brennschluss by IG and radio methods . . .<br>
equations, transformations . . .<br>
    “Now jet expansion angles. I’ll give you an altitude, you tell<br>
me the angle.â€<br>
    “Katje, why don’t you tell me the angle?â€<br>
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angle, n.2<br>
 9. c. colloq. (orig. U.S.). A way of approaching a task; a modus<br>
operandi, a method or scheme (sometimes with implication of dishonesty<br>
or exploitation).<br>
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Is this the meaning of the word "angle" used by Slothrop?<br>
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