Comments on: Fact for September 18, 2008 – why manhole covers are round http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/fact-for-september-18-2008-why-manhole-covers-are-round/ thoughts of a selective subjectivist Tue, 21 May 2013 14:36:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: quantummoxie http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/fact-for-september-18-2008-why-manhole-covers-are-round/#comment-3687 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:29:19 +0000 http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-3687 I believe that in three dimensions you can still get an equilateral triangle to work its way through, though I’m not absolutely positive of that. If I’m wrong then the conjecture would be true for any n-dimensional polygon when n > 3.

]]> By: Sean Palmer http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/fact-for-september-18-2008-why-manhole-covers-are-round/#comment-3686 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:48:42 +0000 http://quantummoxie.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-3686 Wouldn’t an equilateral triangle work as well as a circle?

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