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from a Lightning
Talk at Linus Pauling House (August 2010)
Having a tetrahedron serve as unit volume means any positive integer N to the 3rd power is modeled by a corresponding tetrahedron of edges N. Earthlings and Martians share a terraforming project to build a large dam somewhere. They each contribute concrete in "units of volume" but these units are different. The Martians and Earthlings both calibrate the "scaffolding" (space-filling skeletons) using the Radius and/or Diameter of a ball. The Earthlings
build cubes of edges R, and call this unit. Click here for further discussion (mathfuture). Spoiler alert: conversion constant given.
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