10 Jul
2006
10 Jul
'06
12:04 p.m.
I wrote:
On Monday 10 July 2006 03:06, dasimov@earthlink.net wrote:
Now I'm not even sure which Gareth's "equilateral parallelepiped" would best fit -- either the first or the last, I think.
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The word for this 3D object is "rhombohedron".
D'oh. That is of course the *correct* term for what I clunkily described as an equilateral parallelepiped.
It has been pointed out to me that I committed one of the mortal sins of mailing list communication: misattribution. The first three lines above were in fact written by Michael Kleber. The word "rhombohedron" came from Dan. Peccavi mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. -- g