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can you remember the query you tried?

• carapace 10y ago
  No, but "squaring bucky fuller quote" just now showed the problem.
  • corpus 10y ago
    and what is the correct answer?
    • carapace 10y ago
      Never did find it. In one of his books he points out that associating the second power with the area of a square (as opposed to some other base shape, like a triangle or circle) is a choice we make. Consider triangles (hallucinate the bases): Side Area 1 /\ 1 /\ 2 /\/\ 4 /\ 3 /\/\ 9 /\/\/\
      • corpus 10y ago
        it wasn't hard to find once i read your explanation https://books.google.com/books?id=03fSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=buckminster+fuller+triangle+squaring+power&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwji0M_p4N3PAhVhqlQKHRL5CLUQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=buckminster%20fuller%20triangle%20squaring%20power&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=03fSBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20&dq=bu...
        • carapace 10y ago
          First of all: THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! It's been years, over a decade. This is awesome. Thank you. What did you do to find it? (Is Google "punishing" me? My Google-fu used to be strong but I could not find this.)
          • corpus 10y ago
            Sure :) You mentioned it was in a book, so the first thing I did was go to books.google.com; after that, I just typed in some keywords that seemed right - you can see them at the top, I searched for [buckminster fuller triangle squaring power]
            • carapace 10y ago
              Thank you. :)