[ExI] tumbling pyramids again

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 19 22:51:28 UTC 2017


On Feb 18, 2017 5:26 PM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

Heeeeeheheheheheheheeee, nanoGizrs, please sir may we use that as the
standard name?  We will say nice things about you if anyone wants to trace
the etymology.

Glad it seems to have already stuck :)


Mike were you the one who proposed phi?  Want to stay with that answer?

Yeah, it was a hopeful guess.

Now I'm guessing it's a magic ratio in some other part of this equation.
Ex: the surface area of square side to triangular side - for reasons
similar to how only the surface area of a sphere is relevant to the
information to describe the volume.

While walking the dog yesterday i saw an unusually white stone on the
ground.  Upon closer inspection,  there is a pyramid visible inside the
otherwise classic "just a rock" shape.  I think it's a large chunk of
halite, aka rock salt.   I wonder if nature has already solved this
problem,  being very 'good' at solving energy equations even if via brute
trial and error for long periods of time.

Now i want to go play in the kosher salt :)
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