The things are just fascinating. Other shapes may be more complicated, or more interesting to a mathematician, or more useful - but those Kleins are just kool!
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:41PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:41PM (#726326)
Size doesn't make a Klein - follow a link to see what it is. This one works well enough - https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU [youtu.be]
The surface of the body is one continuous surface - that is, there is no "inside" or "outside" surface. It's kinda like a more three dimensional moebius loop. Except, with on continuous surface, you might argue that it can only be two dimensional.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 25 2018, @06:33PM (5 children)
The things are just fascinating. Other shapes may be more complicated, or more interesting to a mathematician, or more useful - but those Kleins are just kool!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 25 2018, @07:41PM
Even the ladies loves Klein bottle hats and Mobius scarves [kleinbottle.com].
(Score: 5, Interesting) by isj on Sunday August 26 2018, @11:26AM
Yes they are nice. Of course you also have people going a bit further than the rest of us: The man with 1,000 Klein Bottles UNDER his house [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @11:03AM (2 children)
klein bottle? small bottle? whaaat?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 03 2018, @12:08PM
Size doesn't make a Klein - follow a link to see what it is. This one works well enough - https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU [youtu.be]
The surface of the body is one continuous surface - that is, there is no "inside" or "outside" surface. It's kinda like a more three dimensional moebius loop. Except, with on continuous surface, you might argue that it can only be two dimensional.
I also have a Klein bottle smasher - https://www.kleintools.com/sites/all/product_assets/catalog_imagery/klein/809-36.jpg [kleintools.com]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday September 03 2018, @08:38PM
https://beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/calvin-klein-bottle-yves-klein-bottle [beachpackagingdesign.com]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.