Ouch! WFL On 9/21/12, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com> wrote:
________________________________ From: Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 3:00 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Dice problem continued
On 9/21/12, Warren Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
... For a convex one, any face whose plane has minimum distance to the center of mass, is always a stable resting face, and it is never stable to rest on an edge or corner not a face.
No. The centre might project outside the face. WFL
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If that's the case, then there's an adjacent face closer to the center of mass.
-- Gene
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