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| Great job! You knew all that algebra and geometry had to be good for something someday. Sure enough - for building toys. Rob Farver wrote in message <36b1be61.7834646@lu...et.com>... :Incidentally, while writing Tom on this subject today I came up (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| For any of you interested, here's how I came up with the slopes formula: Layer 1 and 2 have no 2x2 slopes, they start at layer 3. Layer 3 has 4, layer 4 has 8, 5 has 12, etc. (add 4 to each layer). This gives the series: sum(0,0,4,8,12, ... (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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