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Sunday 1 October 2023

A Möbius strip activity, tossed out by iinet's idiots

 This is another one, vandalised by buffoons:

The link to the PDF to make the strip is http://members.ozemail.com.au/~macinnis/writing/Mobius%20ants.pdf

Well, that's gone, but here it is. back again

Now here's the context:

The pictures below show what you get when you cut the strip. The first picture shows that a cut down the middle gives a single loop, but there is a surprising result when you test for Möbiusness (my own word). The test is simple: draw a pen line along one side until you get back to the start: If the paper is still a Möbius strip, the line will be on both sides, but in the first picture, that doesn’t happen:



A Möbius strip

Now in the second picture, there are two interlinked loops. I cut off the big ants, and something odd happened: the little ants are isolated on a Möbius strip, but the big ants are on a non-Möbius strip.


Another Möbius strip, but this one has been cut


That's enough for now!


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