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Re: Shapes!
Posted By: eric sleator, on host 152.163.194.212
Date: Friday, August 11, 2000, at 13:32:58
In Reply To: Shapes! posted by lockeai on Friday, August 11, 2000, at 08:59:10:

> What sort of two-dimensional shape would you be, if you had to be a two-dimensional shape made out of straight lines and points?
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> I'd be the two-dimensional representation of a higher-dimensional cube. I posted my attempt at representation of 4 and 5 dimensional cubes at the URL below..
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> locke "i had way too much coffee this morning" ai

I'd be a shape with some absurd number of sides and corners, like 73 each. And no two sides would be the same length. Also some would be ppointing outward, like most normal shapes do, and some would be pointing inward. I'd call it an ericagon.

-eric "I once read a wonderful book about the fourth dimension, which is not time, despite what H.G. Wells had to say about it" sleator


Link: This is that book.

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