| From: | John Crowe <johnxcrowe@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 21, 2007, 21:22 |
Hello, << Schläfli symbols seem to apply only to regular objects. What if the object is irregular?>>True, but... 1. Normally we are only concerned with "normal" shapes. When was the last time you found the need to describe some concave quadrilateral? 2. We have Wythoff symbols. They work as long as all the vertices are the same. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wythoff_symbol. -John MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote: In a message dated 4/20/2007 4:47:13 PM Central Daylight Time, johnxcrowe@YAHOO.COM writes:> Geometry? I'm not sure if there is a good way to describe 3D polyhedra. > Are our conworld inhabitants doomed to reciting Schlafli symbols > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schl%C3%A4fli_symbol)? (On second thought, that might not > be so bad...) >Schläfli symbols seem to apply only to regular objects. What if the object is irregular? stevo --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.