On 20-9-2018 0:16, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>> Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
>>
>>> So - here's a coil wrapping around a torus 5 times.   Super easy as a sphere
>>> weep and parametric or isosurface or polynomial...   but if the torus is
>>> deformed...
>>>
>> 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
> 
> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, and when
> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
> 
> 
> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.
> 
> It was a counting test - you passed!   :D
> 

I still see 5... :-0

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On 20/09/2018 08:00, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 20-9-2018 0:16, Bald Eagle wrote:
>> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>>> Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
>>>

>>>> a sphere

>>>> torus is
>>>> deformed...
>>>>
>>> 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
>>
>> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, 
>> and when
>> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
>>
>>
>> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.
>>

>>
> 
> I still see 5... :-0
> 

Mod(12,7) ??
Adjust your viewpoint. ;-)


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On 20-9-2018 9:30, Stephen wrote:
> On 20/09/2018 08:00, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 20-9-2018 0:16, Bald Eagle wrote:
>>> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
>>>> Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
>>>>

>>>>> a sphere

>>>>> torus is
>>>>> deformed...
>>>>>
>>>> 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
>>>
>>> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, 
>>> and when
>>> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
>>>
>>>
>>> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.
>>>

>>>
>>
>> I still see 5... :-0
>>
> 
> Mod(12,7) ??
> Adjust your viewpoint. ;-)
> 
> 
When I squint I see 12... ;-)

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> draw:


>>> "a kind of strange toroidal form of life"

Looks yummi to me.

B.Gimeno

pd. Seems that everything I look is yummi at lunch time.

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hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> > Le 18-09-18 à 15:11, Bald Eagle a écrit :
> > > So - here's a coil wrapping around a torus 5 times.   Super easy as a sphere
> > > weep and parametric or isosurface or polynomial...   but if the torus is
> > > deformed...
> > 5 times around ? Then, why to I count 12 rotations ?
> We use common core principles to guess at the floating-point values, and when
> you do that, 5 = 12 for sufficiently large values of 5.
>
> No really, I started off with 5, and decided it looked better with 12.

phew.  I'm so glad I read this.  :-)

fwiw, I thought the image posted Sep 4th cool, the "crumpled" surface.  it looks
a little like a kitchen/tea towel dropped, if the texture was more "terry
cloth".


regards, jr.

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This looks similar to the shape of the plasma stream inside a
Wendelstein fusion reactor (check online). Amazing.

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