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Re: I'm talking BASIC indivisible units

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Posted by DickT on October 08, 2002 at 19:28:24:

In Reply to: I'm talking BASIC indivisible units posted by MaddenL3 on October 08, 2002 at 14:56:22:

MaddenL3,

OK, then put two of your triangles together, butted side to side. I believe you have to do this to fill space with your tetrahedra. It forms a rhombus with unit sides. The major diagonal of that rhombus has length square root of three, a number bigger than your unit.

Regards,
Dick

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