Timeline for Infinitely long rods that touch one another
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | Nandakumar R | Thanks for pointing out an imperfection in the way the last question was phrased. I had meant convex objects with finite dimensions, not straight lines. | |
| Mar 13, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | user44143 | This would be better as a comment than as an answer, even if we have to visualize the line segments through the origin in our heads. | |
| Mar 13, 2021 at 2:12 | comment | added | Will Sawin | An example that is less against the spirt, but may still not be entirely according to the spirt, consists of $n$ infinitely long triangular prism, where the triangle is acute of angles at most $2\pi/n$, joined together around a line, so their cross-sections look like a pie sliced into wedges. It's not immediately obvious to me how to give a precise formulation avoiding this example, if one wants. | |
| Mar 13, 2021 at 1:48 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 1:15 | history | edited | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 0:59 | history | answered | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |