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To: Krowbar who wrote (38126)5/13/1999 3:03:00 AM
From: Krowbar  Respond to of 108807
 
Take any 7 coins, of the same size, on a flat surface, and place them around one of the coins so that they are all touching each other, and they fit exactly 6 around the center coin. The same is true for spheres in a plane. It doesn't matter what the diameters are.

I wonder if Christopher thinks it may not be true for a different observer.

The rules are that the spheres cannot be of enormous sizes where relativity comes into play.

Del



To: Krowbar who wrote (38126)5/13/1999 12:07:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Seventeen objects in two rows - would spacing them evenly on a Moebius strip count?
<edit> Monkey and bananas and two even rows - does he get to eat them first?


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