fugitive mind thought of the day (FMTOTD)

[BillWoodruff]

whether a happy cannibal imagines the people he eats are just one big happy family ... is a matter of taste. bonus fmtotd: you can cut as many corners as you like, but, reality will never be smooth enough.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

[Jacquers]

If you cut too many corners you'll end up going in circles?

[Edward Aymami]

More like hexagons?

[BillWoodruff]

unfortunately, as ancient Greeks found, the problem of squaring the circle is NP-Hard [^].

Quote:

The popularity of the problem continued and there are many amusing stories told by De Morgan on this topic in his book Budget of Paradoxes which was edited and published by his wife in 1872, the year after his death. De Morgan suggests that St Vitus be made the patron saint of circle-squarers. This is a reference to St Vitus' dance, a wild leaping dance in which people screamed and shouted and which led to a kind of mass hysteria. De Morgan also suggested the term 'morbus cyclometricus' as being the 'circle squaring disease'.

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

[BillWoodruff]

more like a meander made of sides of polygons ?

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

[Fueled By Decaff]

Sounds like you have (re)invented Bezier curves.

[DRHuff]

Try Soylent Green a few times. Apparently the flavor changers from person to person.

If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

[jmaida]

Did you hear about the kidnapping at the school? It's o.k., he woke up.

"A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger