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Article #2577Re: Alternate cover shape [SPOILER]
From: Albert Cheng
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:47
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 19:47
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In article <106207@bu.edu>, tvaughan@buphyk.bu.edu (Timothy Vaughan) writes: >I just thought of a non-circular shape that won't fall through. >I don't know what it is called, but it is the shape of the rotor >in a Wankel engine. It has constant diameter, although not >constant radius. It could be described nonrigorously as a "rounded >triangle." I will try to derive the equation for it. As someone has pointed out, the height of a triangle is smaller than the base length, it is possible for it to fall through close to the base. But make it concave in like star-shape would work. All odd-pointed star shapes would not fall through. (Pretty hard to climb through.)
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Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!acheng From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng) Subject: Re: Alternate cover shape [SPOILER] References: <106207@bu.edu> Message-ID: <C0I1MC.Azs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:47:00 GMT Lines: 13