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Re: Off Topic - Homework

Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2008 09:31:25 +0100

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:28:47 -0700 (PDT), George
wrote:

>"I am a 3d shape. I have one flat face. I have one curved face which
>meets at a vertex. What am I?"
>
>My 8 year old son's homework. Oh dear - I can't see how a flat face
>can meet a curved face at a vertex. All the rest are quite easy, or is
>it just me?

Sounds something like a plano-convex lens, though that isn't really a
geometric shape, and the two surfaces join at an edge, not a vertex
(which is a point).

Geometry for 8-year-olds? Pah!

(For that matter, homework for 8-year-olds, pah, and what's the point
if the parents are going to do it for them?)

--
Max Demian

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