Re: DAMN, THAT'S COOL! (Help a fellow geek)

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From: Eric Lucas
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 00:00

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Louis Hom <lhom@nature.berkeley.edu> wrote in article
<5cmpbo$nds@agate.berkeley.edu>...
> 	For example, one of my favorite things is the solid that you get
> when you rotate y=1/(log x) about the x-axis -- it has finite volume but
an
> infinite surface.  So if you had a container that shape, you could fill
it
> up with some finite quantity of paint, but it would never be enough to
> actually paint the surface of the thing.

Pretty cool.  Simple (obvious) explanation:  as the two branches approach
the asymtote, the distance between them gets infinitely small, leaving
infinitely little space for the layer of paint.  Now, if you could come up
with a paint that covers in an infinitely thin layer, you'd really have
something.

	Eric Lucas

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Subject: Re: DAMN, THAT'S COOL! (Help a fellow geek)
Date: 1997/01/29
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