 | Istv n Hargittai - 1992 - 594 pages
...Flatland are pentagonal.35 The following lines explain why pentagonal houses are preferred in Flatland: "The most common form for the construction of a house...the West a much larger one for the Men; the South is usually doorless. Men'sdoor '• -Women's door AB Fig. 2 Square and triangular houses are not allowed,... | |
 | James Roy Newman - 2000 - 486 pages
...construction of a house is five-sided or pentagonal, as in the annexed figure. The two Northern sides ROt OF, constitute the roof, and for the most part have...Men; the South side or floor is usually doorless. FIGURE 4 Square and triangular houses are not allowed, and for this reason. The angles of a Square... | |
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I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of Three Dimensions — as if I were the maddest of the mad! But a truce to these painful digressions: let me return to our houses. The most common... 