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This brief post continues the posts Less Chaos More Order and Cafetières, Disorder, Chaos and Anarchy The image shows the positioning of the handle coming to the rescue of the lid location problem.

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This is a quick posting adding to a previous post Cafetières, Disorder, Chaos and Anarchy.

Introduction The primary reason why systems of proportion have been and continue to be important for architecture is that they enable our buildings to embody a mathematical order that we either distil out of or impose upon nature.

BACKGROUND This post recreates the report issued for the opening of the Gorse Ride Housing Estate Finchamptead by Mr Peter Walker Minister of Housing and Local Government on 17th July 1970.

The Distance Effect In whatever way they are presented, it is easier to compare two magnitudes that are quantitatively further apart, than it is to compare two magnitudes that are quantitatively closer together.

With a base 10 place value number system, Britain and America use the period as the radix symbol, to separate integers and decimals, and use a comma to separate groups of digits; for example, they would write 3,200,100.56 Other Europeans such as the Frenc…

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Background The great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who had been asked by the Mayor of Danzig to provide a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem, sent him this disdainful reply: “. . .