scott wrote:
>> Possibly the most alarming part of this whole thing is the number of 
>> forum users who have managed to compute the actual resistance of the 
>> tangle of resistors near the middle.
> 
> V = I * R for each resistor
> and
> Sum(current into a node) = 0
> 
> Solve.
> 
> There's probably a matrix method for doing it, where you get to invert a 
> big matrix, rather than solving all the simultaneous equations by hand.

Sure. But the drawing isn't exactly ledgible, and there's a hell of a 
lot of resistors in there...

(This probably explains why every single poster got a different answer.)

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