¶ Rope
Index Entry
Rope:
“Each fiber in the rope is randomly spiral. The larger braided strands are also spiral together into three final spiral bundles which, in turn, spiral together as a piece of rope, clearly the rope is an aggregate non-straight lines of many varieties of spiraling curvature. The design final twisting of the rope, when its ends are spliced together, will expose a unique number of profile humps. If the twist of the rope has 1/16th inch humps per quarter-inch of rope length, and 64 profile humps per inch, and 768 per foot; then there will be 768 times 64, or 49,152 humps in its total peripheral horizon, inside or outside: that 's a great complex of wavilinear integrations.”
¶ Citations
- RBF dictation to Alexandra Snyder, Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi, India, Dec. '71
