Hi Dan Suttin,

I read your Word files. Great work! There's lots of interesting
stuff there and great photos and other graphics. I liked your final
photos of the new oct-tet truss too! I hope you will upload the Word
files to this group so other people can read them.

Dan Radin

--- In platonicsolids@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Suttin
<homespun4homeschoolers@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dan,
> I posted the question to 4 math groups, and I got
> replies from 2 of them. The answer is 6,922. My
> write-up turned into 2 new Word files. Let me know if
> you would like me to e-mail them to you off list. I
> think you would find them quite interesting.
> OCTA-TETRA Dan
>
> --- danradin <DanRadin@...> wrote:
>
> > That's an interesting question. I'll be curious to
> > hear what you find
> > out and/or figure out.
> >
> > --- In platonicsolids@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Suttin
> > <homespun4homeschoolers@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I recently attended a teacher workshop on math
> > > manipulatives. One of the activities was to
> > figure
> > > out how many geometrically "unique" ways 8 cubes
> > can
> > > be arranged with face-to-face connections. I have
> > > begun to catalog my results including the chiral
> > > (mirror-image)examples.
> > > My question is: Does there exist any kind of
> > > theorem for such an exercise that gives the total
> > > nuber of possibilities?
> > > Will appreceiate any responses.
> > > Dan Suttin
>
>
>
>
>
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