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Definition of 'toruses'

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Noun

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  • * 1952 , F. B. Fuller, Note on trajectories in a solid torus'', in ''Annals of Mathematics 56(3), p439
  • Replace 2 and 4 by thickened toruses 2′ and 4′ enclosing 3′ and replace 1 and 5 by the remaining regions.
  • * 2000 , George L. Hersey, Architecture and Geometry in the Age of the Baroque , p29
  • Since we're discussing cosmic geometry, I will mention that the rings of angels are what mathematicians call toruses or anchor rings—i.e., doughnut-like shapes.
  • * 2005 , Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming vol. 4 fasc. 4, p103
  • Germain Kreweras ... enumerated spanning trees on grids, cylinders, and toruses', as well as oriented spanning trees on directed '''toruses such as ''O''m × ''O n.

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