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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Three-sided coin (ANSWER)
- Message-ID: <11369@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 14:40:24 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.090845.16321@nuscc.nus.sg> <1992Nov19.085455.11218@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <1992Nov19.085455.11218@rvgs.vak12ed.edu> abond@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Andrew H. Bond) writes:
- >matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg writes:
- >>
- >> Is there any country in the world that issues such thick coins so we
- >> can check this out experimentally? ...
- >
- >If you are really interested in testing this solution, why not
- >just get some superglue and glue a bunch of coins together in a
- >stack. Superglue forms very thin, rigid layers of adhesive ...
- >
- >Andrew H. Bond, Roanoke Valley Graduate Center
-
- Good for you! Someone finally proposes an actual *experiment* to look
- at this problem. For a long while I thought this was sci.metaphysics.
-
- Must still be a theorist, however. Coins are not thin enough to get
- an accurate answer this way, but it is a good start to find out the
- parameters of the problem. Certainly the easiest approach is to
- get some 3/4" dowel and use a miter saw to chop it into a variety
- of lengths (say 5 copies of each length), and enlist some school kids
- or undergrads to take data. Better yet, go into the shop and cut up
- some nice steel rods and build a device to so the flips "perfectly" ...
-
- --
- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I
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