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Date:         Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:50:07 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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Direct from Wikipedia: In geometry, an n-sided prism is a polyhedron made of an n-sided polygonal base, a translated copy, and n faces joining corresponding sides. Thus these joining faces are parallelograms. All cross-sections parallel to the base faces are the same. The prisms are a subclass of the prismatoids.

Basically, most 3 dimensional shapes with non-curved edges.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message----- |From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of |Scott Daniel - Turbovans |Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:17 PM |To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM |Subject: Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume | |'rectangular prism' .......? |rather use loose of the word 'prism' me thinks. | |rectangular box is more like it. |or does light shine through your van and break up into a rainbow thing ? | |but who cares ! |care for it and use the fine machine ! | |nice trip you have coming up. | | |----- Original Message ----- |From: "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> |To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> |Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 3:42 PM |Subject: Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume | | |> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote: |>> exterior volume, or interior volume ? |>> |>> for interior volume of an odd shape, without hurting it, you just fill |it |>> with ping pong balls or whatever, then remove those and put them in a |>> properly shaped container that you can use to calculate the volume. |> |> That's a lot of table tennis balls. Who wants to pay for them? My method |> is miles cheaper, costs nothing. |> |>> the pool method is good though. |> |> Are you volunteering your van, a hoist, the pool? Again, my method wins |> on the basis not only of cheapness but it's 100% accurate, and orders of |> magnitude easier to do -- in fact, it's already been done. |> |> Viz: |> |> Assume the standard volumetric Vanagon to be a rectangular prism with |> the following dimensions: 15' x 6'4'' x 6'1'' |> |> Done and done. |> |> This has been a good Friday. |> |> -- |> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott |> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") |> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) |> Bend, OR |> KG6RCR


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