[Icehouse] Non-standard piece sizes

[Carol Townsend]

On 3/5/07, Christopher Hickman <tophu at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Laurie J. Rich wrote:
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> Instead of dots, cut dashes.  They're minus signs, then,  and if
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> they're cut nicely and stacked instead of in a row, they'll be very
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> different looking and nicely intuitive.
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>
> Smaller than -1 would be hard to distinguish without a microscope...
>


Anything smaller than a -1 would be impossible to measure.

Taking the formula: Height = (12x + 20)/32 inches     Width = (7x+11)/32
inches

...then for any X = (-2) or smaller, you'd have a negative measurement.

Height = [ (12)(-2) + 20 ] / 32
 [ (-24) + 20 ] / 32
 (-4)/32 inches

= ( - 0.125) inches.

Sorry... can't happen in the real world.

And besides... I absolutely refuse to fire up my electron microscope JUST to
be able to play with my Negative Giant Pyramids....

:)

Carol
 - she who has made Giant Martian Coasters to go along with a Giant
Treehouse set for Origins...









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