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Piet Hein's SuperEllipse

Anyone ever hear of a geometrical object called "superegg"? It was
supposed to behave like a rolling ball (stable in any position), yet be
oblong like an egg.

I mispelled his name

Piet Hein

Loads of AltaVista hits, but I didn't see the equation yet.

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Chuck Britton Education is what is left when
britton@odie.ncssm.edu you have forgotten everything
North Carolina School of Science & Math you learned in school.
(919) 286-3366 x224 Albert Einstein, 1936