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  • They are, we will suppose, a Merchant and a Physician, or in other words, an Equilateral Triangle and a Pentagon: how am I to distinguish them?

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • They are, we will suppose, a Merchant and a Physician, or in other words, an Equilateral Triangle and a Pentagon: how am I to distinguish them?

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Ate frutti di mare with dtwatts, spent six-plus hours straight talking with ratmmjess, got a stack of three-for-a-dollar SF paperbacks including The Complete Venus Equilateral, found two half-price Osprey Books, and won the final hand at poker with four aces.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009

  • Ate frutti di mare with dtwatts, spent six-plus hours straight talking with ratmmjess, got a stack of three-for-a-dollar SF paperbacks including The Complete Venus Equilateral, found two half-price Osprey Books, and won the final hand at poker with four aces.

    princeofcairo: Saturday, A Day Made of Win princeofcairo 2009

  • The occasional emergence of an Equilateral from the ranks of his serf-born ancestors is welcomed, not only by the poor serfs themselves, as

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • He is then immediately taken from his proud yet sorrowing parents and adopted by some childless Equilateral, who is bound by oath never to permit the child henceforth to enter his former home or so much as to look upon his relations again, for fear lest the freshly developed organism may, by force of unconscious imitation, fall back again into his hereditary level.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • The first means of recognition is the sense of hearing; which with us is far more highly developed than with you, and which enables us not only to distinguish by the voice our personal friends, but even to discriminate between different classes, at least so far as concerns the three lowest orders, the Equilateral, the Square, and the Pentagon — for of the Isosceles I take no account.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • Equilateral, who can achieve nothing beyond a mere monotonous swing, like the ticking of a pendulum; and the regular tick of the Equilateral is no less admired and copied by the wife of the progressive and aspiring

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • The birth of a True Equilateral Triangle from Isosceles parents is the subject of rejoicing in our country for many furlongs around.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • George O. Smith, whose classic stories on "Venus Equilateral", an interplanetary radio relay station, appeared here in the 40s and 50s, are unfortunately highly dated now because of his _over_descriptions of the technology.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

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