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(...) I think the monolith is 1x4x9(1), Dave! I think you're endangering the mission when you post bad information, Dave! I think you should lie down and take a stress tab, Dave! 1 - (URL) cited without endorsement or further comment also from : (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Hey, I didn't specify which monolith I was citing. Now that you mention it, though, Best-Lock bricks and tiles allow you to build to the precise proportions of Clarke's Monolith, 20 LDraw Units deep by 80 units wide by 180 units tall. Groovy. (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Please demonstrate that, without any specific reference, it is reasonable to assume ANY OTHER monolith. That is, provide a cite to some other monolith just as, or more deeply, embedded in popular culture. :-) (...) I believe you can do that in (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I think it will be easier for me to prove that 2 is a perfect square... (...) I think that's correct, but I was too busy back-pedalling to mention it. Dave! (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) There isn't a link there, because the Golden Section isn't 2:3... The golden ratio is derive from a rectangle where if a square is cut from the rectangle, the remaining piece is another golden ratio rectangle. So, the sides of the original (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Mathematics aside, it's been a long time since I read the 2001 series (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001), but I recall that in one of 'em, there's a statement with the idea that the monolith is based on squares starting at 1, and the thought went on to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For the record while I posted that text, I did not WRITE it. Bram trimmed off the cite I gave to the site I glommed the text from. I mean, really, does that prose read like something I'd have written? Sorry for any confusion (that Bram's (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Oops, sorry. Your cite wasn't very clear. (...) Nope, it doesn't... --Bram (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Right. My point was that the Greek Golden ratio has nothing to do with the proportions of the monolith. --Bram (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) The golden ratio is related to a different sequence: the ratio between consecutive numbers of the Fibonacci sequence approaches Phi. Or phi, if you go backwards. So, if the monolith were golden-ratio realated, its sides in the primary three (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, but I wanted to post this somewhere, and here looked like a pleasant spot :) Dave K -what are you doing, Dave? Would you like to hear a song? (21 years ago, 26-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) for a good Golden Section site: (URL) remember "Donald in Mathemagic land" Disney video? Jeff (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes. My very bad high school math teacher made us watch it a lot. (21 years ago, 27-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:Hs3wLt.254@lugnet.com... (...) instance, (...) for (...) (first (...) number in (...) (final (...) exist (...) the (...) My God.. LOL. On Lugnet you can learn about everything! I allways use (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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