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June 23, 2008
Buckminster Fuller in the New Yorker
He concluded that the Cartesian coordinate system had got things all wrong and invented his own system, which he called Synergetic Geometry. Synergetic Geometry was based on sixty-degree (rather than ninety-degree) angles, took the tetrahedron to be the basic building block of the universe, and avoided the use of pi, a number that Fuller found deeply distasteful.
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Posted by Nick at June 23, 2008 05:53 PM
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