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To: Gauguin who wrote (10333)	4/29/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) of 71178

Snowflakes. Oh boy. Math homework. Let's take a single snowflake. Make it... the Reference Flake. Five millimeters across, one millimeter thick, perfectly regular hexagon. Say... ten milligrams. That's four times ten to the twentieth water molecules lined up in the crystal lattice. Okay. Perfect flake. That's one. Now introduce a single defect, a "hole" in the lattice. You have four times ten to the twentieth divided by twelve (symmetry, remember?) available combinations. Okay. three times ten to the nineteenth unique flakes. That's three hundred billion tons of ice. Okay. Let's take two lattice defects... you get the point. Not enough water on the planet to game that one finished. I truly believe that if there were two truly identical snowflakes anywhere anytime (have I invoked the isotopic mosaic yet?!) there's a Big Guy with egg on His face. Hope I didn't ruin your day

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