[Icehouse] 30 Pointer Alert

[Ryan McGuire]

Except that those formulas don't produce the "standard" dimensions as I 
understand them.  Unless I'm mistaken the sizes are as follows:

    Small  1 x 9/16
    Medium 1 3/8 x 25/32
    Large  1 3/4 x 1

Are these not the dimensions you started with?

Given those dimensions, the formulae would be...

    Height = (5 + 3x)/8
    Width = (11 + 7x)/32

...where x is the number of pips.

Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Sheldon" <don.sheldon at gmail.com>
To: "Icehouse Discussion List" <icehouse at lists.looneylabs.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Icehouse] 30 Pointer Alert


> On 3/2/07, Robert Bryan <rbryan at extendthereach.com> wrote:
>> They've probably been noted before, but these are awesome:
>> http://www.fisar.net/gallery.pyramids.php
>>
>>
>>
>> I've read some of debates about the correct formula for dimensions
>> of larger pieces...
>
> Copied from my previous treatise on the matter:
>
> =====
> A pyramid is
> (5+3x)/14 inches wide, rounded to the nearest 32nd and
> (5+3x)/8 inches tall
> where x is the number of pips.
>
> Which gives us the currently published values AND makes the obsessive
> mathematician in me happy.
> =====
>
> The tricky part is, of course, rounding 14ths to the nearest 32nd.
>
> -- 
> - |) () /\/
>  it's all about the 4:7 ratio
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