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Triangling:
"Now here is the way we are used to appraising area. We have a square and we divide the edges into two and we say that the increments are two, so 2 x 2 = 4; and we count the squares and we say that 3 x 3 = 9, etc. I am now going to do this with the triangle. I divide the edge into two and I say 2 x 2 = 4, 3 x 3 = 9, etc: and you can say ‘triangling’ instead of squaring.
"Maybe you never thought about doing that. None of the scientists do-- they always say – they always say squaring. It seems that it never occurred to them that they could say triangling instead of squaring. When you find you can triangle, and you recall Mach’s definition of physics-- ‘nature always does things in the most economical ways’-- and if you are triangling you only need half the area to account it in triangles. The triangles use up less of your area.
“Furthermore, there is a very trusting characteristic. Let me look at any quadrangle and I look at it prospectively-- let’s say any quadrangle in which the four edges are not the same. I bisect those edges and interconnect and I get four dissimilar”
