legomonk Posted January 14, 2012 Posted January 14, 2012 found this article yesterday thought everyone might enjoy it. this article is about legos and math. I am personally horrible at math but I do enjoy math theory a bunch. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/the-mathematics-of-lego/ Quote
brickmack Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 Fairly interesting. Mostly stuff I already guessed, but nice to see it quantified. Quote
Si-MOCs Posted January 15, 2012 Posted January 15, 2012 That's actually quite interesting ... The crux of the argument is that as sets (or systems) increase in size, so do the unique types of pieces. And they show the math in terms of LEGO sets, and it is similar to other systems out there - biological and man made. Though I think the critical flaw of the study (and I feel bad for the analysts that did this) is that composition of the sets are directly dictated by the packaging/bagging limitations of LEGO sets. Each bag can only have so many unique elements. So bigger the sets - more bags, more bags = more unique parts. Quote
legomonk Posted January 15, 2012 Author Posted January 15, 2012 I had noticed that flaw as well. Even my gf's dad an electrical engineer retired thought this was cool and agreed with some of the ideas behind it. I give him a lot of credence since he got me through math 108. lol! Quote
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