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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: What is this nonsense for?
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Date: 21 Jul 88 20:09:04 GMT
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In article <892@wucs2.UUCP> jps@wucs2.UUCP (James Sterbenz) writes:

>[...] I suspect that any regular polygon with an ODD number of sides
>couldn't fall into the hole.  Think about trying to rotate a triangle or
>pentagon to fit!  A circular cover is just easier to manufacture
>(kinda like a polygon with an infinite number of sides :-).

Nonsense -- a manhole cover (ignoring the holes through it) has five sides,
the top, bottom, edge, outside and inside!

Time to quit.

Rich