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<p>[QUOTE="LordVger, post: 74521, member: 4028"]Yeah so me and a buddy were talking the other day about John Conway, the mathematician. He tells me that Conway discovered that if you place pennies on their edge on a table and then bang the table, the majority of the coins would fall on one side (tails? heads?, whatever, but they'd mostly be one or the other). According to him, it's because the edges of a coin are slightly bevelled. This seemed true, since ejecting a coin from its restraining collar would work much better this way, I guess. </p><p><br /></p><p>So is it true that the collars are bevelled?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="LordVger, post: 74521, member: 4028"]Yeah so me and a buddy were talking the other day about John Conway, the mathematician. He tells me that Conway discovered that if you place pennies on their edge on a table and then bang the table, the majority of the coins would fall on one side (tails? heads?, whatever, but they'd mostly be one or the other). According to him, it's because the edges of a coin are slightly bevelled. This seemed true, since ejecting a coin from its restraining collar would work much better this way, I guess. So is it true that the collars are bevelled?[/QUOTE]
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