POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : 7-'sided' Mobius-ring : Re: 7-'sided' Mobius-ring Server Time
4 Nov 2024 17:30:42 EST (-0500)
  Re: 7-'sided' Mobius-ring  
From: Warp
Date: 12 Aug 2000 05:54:00
Message: <39951eb7@news.povray.org>
David Fontaine <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote:
: And since 7 is a prime number, it will always have 1 side unless it is
: twisted by a multiple of 360..

  And this holds for every prime number.

  Now, this is an interesting idea: Get a really big prime number and make
a moebius which cross-section has that many sides. It will look like it has
lots of sides and still it will have only one (unless you twist by a multiple
of 360...).

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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