Tuesday, March 05, 2002, 11:28:45 PM, you wrote:
o> I have stumbled upon a 2 duplicate copies of the above show. It's on crappy
o> media, and I wrote on them with a Sharpies as well. Must have been reading
o> rule #5 at the time. This was the first Dead show I ever saw, and it ROCKS.
o> I walked onto the parking a lot looking lot like a kid in a candy store, and
o> got handed a miracle ticket. In honor of that ticket I'm offering these two
o> sets of discs to the first two people who answer me this:
o> Why are manhole covers round and not square?
The answer is: geometry.
A circle can't fall through its own hole.
For any polygon, there will be "diameters"
of various lengths. This would allow you
to turn the polygon so that it could fit
through the "diameter" of it's hole.
WOB: B&P to the first emailer for anything on
my list (db.etree.org/coop)
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