Shapes of things

From: danny bourne <d.bourne_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 15:40:45 +0100


u've been reading these for a long time...
>
>Steve Lieb exclusively reveals:
>> Alex is a cube.
>
>I've always thought of myself as a dodecahedron. But I'll settle for
>this lower-order Euclidean Solid at a push.
>
>
>> Greg's some wierd N-dimensional shape that shows up at different times as a
>> circle, a torus, or a twisted donut.
>
>Klein bottle, doubtless. (Only three-and-a-bit dimensions, alas, so
>I shall defer to anyone nominating something Appropriately Weirder.)

And there I was thinking that the digest was mainly composed of squares, with a sprinkling of real anchors and the occassional star. (Of course Brian Tickler's just (a) cross) ;)


Powered by hypermail