From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Wed Feb 12 19:28:08 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:28 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA22819; Wed, 12 Feb 92 19:25:02 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA17507; Wed, 12 Feb 92 17:45:11 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA16523; Wed, 12 Feb 92 17:43:47 EST Message-Id: <9202122243.AA16523@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 5467; Wed, 12 Feb 92 17:42:25 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 7404; Wed, 12 Feb 92 17:41:53 EST Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1992 17:42:10 EST Reply-To: Guy Steele Sender: Lojban list From: Guy Steele Subject: Deasil/widdershins X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann In-Reply-To: John Cowan's message of Wed, 12 Feb 1992 16:09:15 EST <9202122216.AA16944@Early-Bird.Think.COM> Status: RO The terminology deasil/widdershins was used within Thinking Machines Corporation in describing an aspect of its hypercube network in the Connection Machine model CM-1. The cabinet consisted of eight smaller cubes forming one large cube. For some purposes one must regard them as connected in a ring, with each subcube connected to two adjacent subcubes. If you trace the subcubes in order around the ring, you hit them in a pattern most easily described as the seam on a baseball. We used "deasil" and "widdershins" to describe the two directions around this contorted ring.