Stacking positive and negative cannonballs

The Endeavour 2025-05-30

Summary:

Imagine you are a soldier in charge of stacking cannonballs. Your fort has a new commander, a man with OCD who wants the cannonballs stacked in a very particular way. The new commander wants the balls stacked in tetrahedra. The balls on the bottom of the stack are arranged into a triangle. Then the next […]

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math

Authors:

John

Date tagged:

05/30/2025, 10:31

Date published:

05/30/2025, 09:18