Article 6NNNS Mathematicians Are Excited About a Newly Discovered Shape

Mathematicians Are Excited About a Newly Discovered Shape

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Isaac Schultz
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In two dimensions, it's the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller area than a circle. Now, a team of mathematicians say they've scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyond, finding it resolves a math problem...

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