Allegedly amusing if you've been reading these for a long time...

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_yeats.ucc.ie>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:21:23 +0100 (BST)


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.)


Powered by hypermail