¶ Cube Edge
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When looking at pyramids, if you were starting with a cube as unity, then the volume of the tetrahedron would be some odd number. If you were using the edge of the cube for your control, and using the same edge for the tetrahedron, you would find thatthe volume of the tetrahedron is a very odd number and comes out 1.7826 or something like that. The volume of the octahedron would seem to be some other strange number. They would be uncomfortable numbers in respect to you cube as unity. But you wouldn’t be suspicious between the tetrahedron and the octahedron where the edge lengths are the same: the volume is exactly four in the octahedron and the tetrahedron is volume one.
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #6, p.214, 10 Jul’62
