Re: Re: A question about a sphere
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- Subject: [mg107161] Re: [mg107106] Re: A question about a sphere
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:28:01 -0500 (EST)
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No, No Kevin. That was the 20th Century mathematician Arnold Schoenberg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5dOI2MtvbA Notice also, his invention of various functional programming techniques and also encryption devices and the slide rule. >From the nature of his results some people think he may have invented cellular automata and discovered Rule 30, but I rather doubt that. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Kevin J. McCann [mailto:Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu] I thought the Babylonians used base 12. Kevin David Park wrote: > Here is an easy solution using the Presentations package. First we > parametrize a sphere and then draw the sphere, the lines of latitude, and > the lines of longitude using the parametrization. (We could have just used > Sphere for the sphere.) I used 6 lines of longitude in honor of the > Babylonians.