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Usenet Abuse: Someone at IP address 34.221.173.242 is impersonating me and posting nonsense

gluceg...@gmail.com (Radium) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:07:23 UT

should remain
totally unresponsive to the infliction of even the most excruciating
pain, totally unresponsive to any type of injury [regardless of
severity], and totally unresponsive to any emotion or psychological
state [regardless of intensity].
5. The parts of his/her brain that deal exclusively with movement,

Re: Geometrical shape

chenr...@monmouth.com (Christopher J. Henrich) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:04:51 UT

In article <1i1ok3k.9pe1jsyi7vy5N%pictorN OS...@abc.se>, Marcus
Rhombicuboctahedron.

Geometrical shape

pictornos...@abc.se (Marcus Marcusson) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:47:04 UT

What's the English name of the 26-side ball-shape of the point leveler
weight on the picture? In Swedish it's evidently "rombkuboktaeder"…
[link]
/M

Re: Golden polyhedron

odysseus1479...@yahoo-dot.ca (Odysseus) — Mon, 29 May 2006 14:46:39 UT

<snip>
In his _Polyhedra: a visual approach_ Anthony Pugh classifies it
among geodesic figures as a one-frequency truncated tetrahedron: 16
vertices (here 12 fivefold and 4 sixfold), 28 faces, and 42 edges
satisfy Euler's formula. (In terms of the radius of the circumsphere,
the length of the edges of the original truncated tetrahedron is

Re: Golden polyhedron

some...@ny.net (Dan in NY) — Sat, 27 May 2006 06:43:59 UT

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Greetings Walter and other readers,
Thank you so much for this post. It answers all my questions and more. I
never thought of this truncation.
I have thought out the truncation of the tetrahedron. I now understand it,
if you mean to remove a tetrahedron from each vertex -- where the (length

Re: Golden polyhedron

some...@ny.net (Dan in NY) — Sat, 27 May 2006 06:44:04 UT

Greetings John and other readers,
Thank you for your reply to my posted questions. It sums up what Walter said very well, and came at the same time. I have replied to his version of this in detail.
As to your suggestion, I like the name "the Golden Globe". The NY Times editor suggested that there was a search for a name with his headline, "16 Golden Atoms in Search of a Catchy Name" I am not really collecting names. Maybe you would like to pursue this and suggest this name to the discovering scientists, Dr. Lai-Sheng Wang, who is a physicist at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory -- and his collaborator, (Dr.?) Xiao Cheng Zeng of the University of Nebraska.

Re: Golden polyhedron

white...@mathstat.yorku.ca (Walter Whiteley) — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:03:06 UT

Let me try again on this.
It is evident from the picture (included in my earlier post) that the atoms are
on the convex hull and form the 'vertices' of a polyhedron. The shape is:
- truncate a tetrahedron (making four of the triangles). Then add a vertex just
out of the plane over the center of each of the four hexagonal faces just

Re: Golden polyhedron

anisohed...@yahoo.com (John Berglund) — Wed, 24 May 2006 17:03:02 UT

It looks like this is based on a truncated tetrahedron. Each hexagonal face of the truncated tetrahedron is preplaced with a hexagonal pyramid....

Names: How about the Golden Globe?

John Berglund

wrote in message
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Greetings
,
Thank you for your comment. After I read your words, I looked again at the

Re: Golden polyhedron

some...@ny.net (Dan in NY) — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:04:48 UT

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Greetings <pyt...@gmail.com>,
Thank you for your comment. After I read your words, I looked again at the
figure. I agree with you that there are six and five triangle vertices but
no four triangle vertex. I will take your word for other geodesics.

Re: Golden polyhedron

some...@ny.net (Dan in NY) — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:04:43 UT

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Greetings Lee and other readers,
Thank you for your reply to my post. Of course you are correct in what you
say. I am sorry you didn't see the figure. I have replied to my first post
with a figure for you, one posted and one attached. I hope you can look
there and see the figure one way or another.

Re: Golden polyhedron

white...@mathstat.yorku.ca (Walter Whiteley) — Wed, 24 May 2006 05:03:03 UT

Right - my mistake in my earlier posting: the 12 vertices are of degree
5, the other four of degree 6. There ARE geodesic domes with 6
vertices of degree 4, and the rest of degree 6, but this is not one of
them!
Walter
If you look again, I think you'll see that it is made up of 6-triangle
vertices and 5-triangle vertices. There are no 4-triangle vertices. I

Re: Golden polyhedron

pyt...@gmail.com — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:57:53 UT

If you look again, I think you'll see that it is made up of 6-triangle
vertices and 5-triangle vertices. There are no 4-triangle vertices. I
believe that this is true of any geodesic dome type structure.

Re: Golden polyhedron

lrudo...@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) — Tue, 23 May 2006 13:37:04 UT

Well, of course, "it" doesn't have "faces" at all. What "it"
(an instance of such a molecule) has, allowing minor idealization,
is vertices (atoms), and then, allowing considerably more idealization,
edges (bonds). There is no physical structure that corresponds
to faces (unless some Idiotic Micromanager has been sneaking around

Golden polyhedron

some...@ny.net (Dan in NY) — Tue, 23 May 2006 12:45:46 UT

Greetings,
On the NY Times web site, there is a story and picture about a hollow
molecule composed of 16 atoms of gold. It looks like the figure is an
irregular polyhedron where some vertices have six triangles meeting and
others have four. The article is "16 Golden Atoms in Search of a Catchy

dear geometry.forum readers

tomstde...@gmail.com — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:37:03 UT

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It's getting a bit tiresome seeing one misguided American after another with
their cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their outsized SUVs.
Yeah, I guess it's the thing to do; maybe part of that whole soccer-mom
culture. Unfortunately, the only thing they demonstrate is that the person