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Very interesting! One of my co-workers is a math geek - the next time I see
him I'll ask him about this problem. I think it falls under the category of
math known as combinational topology.
Brickshelf's thumbnail script produced an interesting effect: your original
pics are appropriately encoded as short-palette gifs but the script turns
them into jpgs. The jpg version is much larger than the original. An
undesirable side-effect, to be sure.
In lugnet.general, Robert Graff writes:
> Hi everybody!
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> I was idly flipping through my copy of The Ultimate LEGO book the other day
> and I noticed a little bit of trivia on page 8. It says that two 2x4 bricks can
> be combined in 24 ways, three bricks: 1060 ways, and six bricks: 102,981,500
> ways. ( assuming both bricks are the same color ).
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| (...) true, but unavoidable. brickshelf was designed, as far as I know, to host picture (photoes) of lego creations, meetings, etc... since those are pictures that weren't generated by a computer, they will almost always be better compressed as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| (...) I did my honours year in Combinatorics which is the area of mathematics dealing with combining things (essentially). I've considered looking at the the number of ways of combining any number of bricks (like 10 for example) but the problem is (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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