Talk:Cuboid
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It says that i added
- It can also be called a rectangular parallelepiped or rectangular prism.
I don't think it was bcz i was on drugs tho it would make more sense than what i remember, but i think it's wrong, bcz "rectangular" does not (for a solid figure) imply all faces. "Right rectangular prism", but i'm not sure we should bother with that.
--Jerzy·t 17:25, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
I took higher level math, and I check it on the Mathworld website.... The statement about "rectangular parallelepiped " is correct, I should be added. The current description is too "dumbed down". A Cubiod is rather technical in and of its self, therefore having the discription equally technical is justified. Ashby
- Good then.
- Certainly the word cuboid is technical (you can minor in math and not know it), but this is not a dictionary, and the article is not abt the technical word "cuboid", but abt the sometimes technical, sometimes simplistic concept of cuboid. Its only really suitable name (adequately precise and adequately brief) is "cuboid", but the technical sound of that word is a red herring: piping means it can be lk-ed via box, and inspected by non-technical users who want to know if we're ruling out a 10-faced box (its interior is the union of two truncated square pyramids) that might have a fast-food burger in it, or a cylindrical one with 3 pounds of Quaker-brand oatmeal. To see that this is not hypothetical, sample the articles that lk to this talk page's article.
- I've no objection to including good rigorous material, but do bear in mind that the straight-forward stuff needs to be there too. None of these articles belong exclusively to the specialists.
- --Jerzy·t 07:14, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Surface area
A colleague added
- , or in a shortest calculation, 2(a+b)h+ab.
but
- They must mean "2((a+b)h+ab)
- The h is undefined, but h=c would fix it
- It needs some justification of the logic of "shortest": what assumption is involved as to, e.g., ratio between time do multiplications and addtiongs, and what is the domain where that matters? This isn't an optimum-computation manual, and the effort of remembering a less intuitive formula is unlikely to be repaid.
Let's hear what they have in mind here.
--Jerzy·t 05:36, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
