Roger Burton West
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 23:06:28 -0700
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:01:05AM +0100, Chris Benson wrote: >Mmmm, so if there are 3 water lilies with circular leaves, what is the >largest they can grow on the surface of a sphere without overlap? >On a circle it's easy to see it's just less than the radius of the >circle. Not so easy with a sphere. Looks like evenly-spaced around the equator. With only three points, they'll _have_ to be coplanar by definition. And, of course, a belt of n points around the equator is "even spacing", but doesn't look good... Roger