10x10 block (fwd)

Beirne Konarski (bkonarsk@mcs.kent.edu)
Sun, 4 Jun 1995 16:10:09 -0400 (EDT)

Forwarded message:
> From: John Larkin <jlarkin@osiris.ac.hmc.edu>
> Subject: 10x10 block
>
> I've got a question about the 10x10 block. It seems to me that a figure
> described as 10x10 would be 2 dimentional. Seeing as it's not too hard
> riding over a 10x10 peice of paper, I guess this is the wrong idea. Is it
> just a curb that is 10cm high and you have a 10 cm width marked out on the
> curb in order to scale it?

No. It is actually a 10x10x?cm block. This means a beam of indeterminate
length with a 10x10cm cross section. If you expand the paper into the third
dimension you have the block. The idea is that you have to be able to go
up, then back down again right away.

Beirne

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