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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Perfection
Message-ID: <398@spar.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 08:15:57 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 14 08:15:57 1985
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, CA
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>> Consider the honeycomb, which represents  a  perfect
>> solution  to a multi-dimentional optimization  problem.  The hexagonal
>> shape  gives  maximum  strength  for  minimal   use  of material  with

>If the honeycomb is truly "the perfect structure", why are bees the only

>> Bees would need  engineering  degrees  with  math through 

   This is all getting a bit baroque..

   Throw any reasonably sized bag of marbles on the ground, or into a pan
   if you wish to see what happens in a higher dimensionality.
   
   The marbles will arrange themselves into hexagons.

-michael