16 Jul
2015
16 Jul
'15
9:46 a.m.
It strikes me as unseemly for you to describe your own game as "thrilling" and "amazingly fun" (other than in commercial publicity materials). In any case, maybe the next time you describe the mathematical properties of an ellipse you might mention that the ellipse can be defined as the curve any point of whose sum of distances to two specific points is a constant. —Dan
On Jul 16, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Alex Bellos <alexbellos@gmail.com> wrote:
I first read about elliptical pool tables in Martin Gardner.
So I decided to go make one.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jul/1... <http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/jul/16/loop-new-cue-sport-pool-ellipse-elliptical>