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Steve Bliss wrote:
> It was the statement where you were expounding on the many wise decisions
> LEGO made while designing/revising/perfecting the brick system. You
> mentioned the "mystical 5:6 ratio".
There's not much to say on that, really. So here are a few paragraphs
anyway.
It IS a mystical ratio. Were it explicable, it would not be mystical, as
the mystical is inexplicable, that is, it admits of no explanation.
For the numerologists among us, let me hasten to point out that 6 is
2x3. 2 and 3 are the first two primes (we don't usually count 1 as a
prime) and 5 is the third. So we have a ratio of the product of the
first two primes, and the third. Further, when we take the SUM of the
first two primes, we get 5 again. So 5 is in there two times, once by
sequence and once by summation.
Coincidence? I think not.
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