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[EpsiIon]

What in the world is a parallelepiped? If you could provide an image, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Epsilon

[edit]mispelled parallelepiped[/edit]

 

[pillage2001]

Stick two pipes together. There you have it.

 

[EpsiIon]

Bu- but, Merriam Webster defines a parallelepiped as: 6-faced polyhedron all of whose faces are parallelograms lying in pairs of parallel planes. I can't quite picture it...

 

[EpsiIon]

Wait... Isn't a cube technically a parallelepiped?

 

[CSoup]

<< Bu- but, Merriam Webster defines a parallelepiped as: 6-faced polyhedron all of whose faces are parallelograms lying in pairs of parallel planes. I can't quite picture it... >>



If that is the definition then a cube or box would be one.

 

[atom]

Yes, a cube or a brick is a type of parallelpiped.

 

[Talon]

link 1
link 2

 

[wiggyryder]

any two sets of points on a line that are parallel.

 

[uclaxman]

jo mama

 

[Zim Hosein]

<< jo mama >>



Epsilon, where did you come across this word, I've never seen it once.

 

[Valhalla1]

parallel-piped... sounds like what happens to a chick when you're screwin'

 

[EpsiIon]

I came across this word in a physics book. We had to show that A dot (B cross C) gave the volume of a parallelepiped. I actually figured it out a little while ago. Not hard when you realize what a parallelepiped is...

 

[Zim Hosein]

EpsiIon, thanks for the response, since I've never taken physics, that would explain why I've never seen the word. What you say it true that once you see a visual representation of it, it all makes sense. Thanks.

 

[JeffSpicoli]

<< Merriam Webster defines a parallelepiped as: 6-faced polyhedron all of whose faces are parallelograms lying in pairs of parallel planes >>

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