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jules
on May 27, 2012
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Why are the cooling towers on nuclear power plants...
Hyperboloids can be made from straight tilted lines:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Ruled_hyp...
So tipi's
are
hyperboloids with a small inner cross section.
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So tipi's are hyperboloids with a small inner cross section.