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Letter: 12 sides to every story

Published 31 March 2001

From Marion Justice

Syd Curtis proposes that a piece of paper, when considered as a cuboid, has
eight sides
(3 March, p 56).
Surely it actually has 12: inside left, inside
right, inside top, inside bottom, inside front, inside back, outside left,
outside right, outside top, outside bottom, outside front and outside back?

Willerby, East Yorkshire

Issue no. 2284 published 31 March 2001

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