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Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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lugnet.build
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Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:11:06 GMT
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> Someone check my math... I gotta go to the airport!
Dunno about checking--my brain is a little fried today (long week of checking
numbers and cross references here).
If I recall correctly from reading the book, the 1 x 4 x 9 dimension comes from
the squares of "the first three numbers":
1 squared = 1
2 squared = 4
3 squared = 9
-Scott Lyttle
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| (...) 1 4 9 ?? where have I heard that before?... I had no idea it was 1 4 9 ! OK, seriously. What I'm driving at is that if you want to do it in bricks and do it the easy way, studs up, the dimensions I gave for bricks of 2x8x15 high convert to 40 (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) I'm not sure I agree. A 1x1 brick is 20 LDU wide and 24 LDU high, ne? (...) 7x20 ldu or 140 ldu wide (...) 28x20 ldu or 560 ldu across (...) 54 x 24 or 1296 ldu high 1296 isn't 9 times 140... or is my math wrong here? I get 1260 as 9*140 I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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