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In article <5cmpbo$nds@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Louis Hom <lhom@nature.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>So, I'm trying to collect posters' favorite Things in Math & Science.

    I always thought "DAMN, THAT'S COOL!" about things that there are more
    than one but finitely many of:
	* regular polyhedrons
	* digitally invariant pluperfect numbers
	* regular polygons that tile the plane
    
    I always thought "DAMN, THAT'S COOL!" about things that feel abitrarily
    assigned or limited:
	* the four-color map theorem
	* knots can only exist in 3-D (I believe)
	* Vertices - Edges + Faces = 2
	* exp( pi * i ) = -1

    For all of these, both the *fact that they are true* and the *reason
    that they are true* are in the "DAMN, THAT'S COOL!" category.

    Other things that are way in the "DAMN, THAT'S COOL!" category are
    homomorphism, Conway surreal numbers, and the infinite hotel.

    alter,
    pat
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