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'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:47 am
by Ryan Taylor
I got this text off someone asking 'what's that shape called that never ends?' I thought some clever people here might figure out what they were after from this vague description.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:00 am
by Matthew Tassier
Mobius Strip?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:02 am
by Howard Somerset
Lots of possibiltes, the most simple of which is circle.
But I wonder if mandelbrot was the one that you were after.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:50 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
Nope.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:16 pm
by Ian Volante
Ryan Taylor wrote:Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
Nope.
That was my thought too. Stupid text.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:31 pm
by David O'Donnell
Martin Jarvis.
/thread
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:01 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
M
öbius Strip
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:02 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
Möbius strip
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:03 pm
by Michael Wallace
Dmitry Goretsky wrote:Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
M
öbius Strip
Möbius, actually.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:06 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
Michael Wallace wrote:Dmitry Goretsky wrote:Matthew Tassier wrote:Mobius Strip?
M
öbius Strip
Möbius, actually.
I underlined the correct letter ö
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:06 pm
by Ben Wilson
Is it the Klein bottle you're thinking of?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:07 pm
by Ryan Taylor
They said no to Mobius strip cos that is what I thought it was in the first place. Really clueless about this.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:10 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
Ben Wilson wrote:Is it the Klein bottle you're thinking of?
Or
cross cap, or
umbilic torus, or
Klein bottle
Note: if you don't know about some of them, just click on the names of shapes you don't know about
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:11 pm
by Michael Wallace
Dmitry Goretsky wrote:I underlined the correct letter ö
ö, actually.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:30 pm
by Liam Tiernan
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:30 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Infinity symbol?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:32 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
Circle?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:22 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Eoin Monaghan wrote:Circle?
Howard's already mentioned that but you could say sphere.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:28 pm
by Charlie Reams
Is the person who asked you this a bit...
square?
(Dmitry, if you haven't heard of a square, just click on it a few times.)
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:41 pm
by Matthew Tassier
Mandelbrot Set was a good suggestion.
Otherwise, fractals in general?
Or a Spirograph?
Tete-a-tete sofa perhaps?
Feel free to add your own accents or other decorative accoutrements.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:08 pm
by Dmitry Goretsky
Charlie Reams wrote:Is the person who asked you this a bit...
square?
(Dmitry, if you haven't heard of a square, just click on it a few times.)
TRIANGLE??!!
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:21 pm
by Michael Wallace
Dmitry Goretsky wrote:TRIANGLE??!!
TRI
ÄÑGL
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Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:31 pm
by Marc Meakin
I don't know, but I did once spend over an hour eating a Muller rice though.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:27 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Thanks for your help guys. "It could well be a Klein bottle good shout there" - apparently a Klein bottle then. Although this sounded as if they just kind of nodded their head to stop the barrage of endless shapes as you would have thought they'd be more affirmative. Case closed nonetheless.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:43 pm
by Matthew Tassier
Gomboc
....
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:37 am
by Dmitry Goretsky
Michael Wallace wrote:Dmitry Goretsky wrote:TRIANGLE??!!
TRI
ÄÑGL
É
???!!! YOU LOSE EVERYTHING. YOU'RE BANNED FOREVER!!!
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 12:00 pm
by Dinos Sfyris
Me knob
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:43 pm
by Charlie Reams
In what sense does a Klein bottle "never end"?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:49 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Charlie Reams wrote:In what sense does a Klein bottle "never end"?
My friend is special.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:56 am
by David O'Donnell
Ryan Taylor wrote:Charlie Reams wrote:In what sense does a Klein bottle "never end"?
My friend is special.
He can insert the Klein bottle?
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:40 am
by Ryan Taylor
*she
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:19 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Ryan Taylor wrote:*she
Hot.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:43 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Kirk Bevins wrote:Ryan Taylor wrote:*she
Hot.
Kinga and the wine bottle
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:43 pm
by Ian Volante
I wonder what shagging a Klein vagina would be like.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 5:44 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Ian Volante wrote:I wonder what shagging a Klein vagina would be like.
I wonder what shagging a vagina would be like.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:00 pm
by Charlie Reams
Ian Volante wrote:I wonder what shagging a Klein vagina would be like.
Quite pleasing for German speakers.
Re: 'What's that shape called that never ends?'
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 4:33 pm
by Johnny Canuck