slightly eccentric

[gfish]

I just measured with a micrometer, and my wedding ring has developed an eccentricity of 0.3303 (24.4mm x 23.03mm). Which is rather odd, because I always take it off when I'm doing the kind of things that would tend to crush small loops of soft metal.

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[creeves78.livejournal.com]

i assume you meant your wedding ring, rather than your wedding...;P i've recently found myself contemplating the shape of my wedding ring & any inconsistancies in place of staring off into space. unfortunately it tends to happen at work, where i have no micrometer. but class starts on wednesday...i'll have to wander down to the projects lab & measure mine. now you've got me curious!

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Ooops, just so. Fixed. What class?

(You always respond so quickly to LJ for someone who never, ever posts. Hint hint.)

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Well there's no need to get all bent out of shape over it.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

All kinds of activities, including shoving one's hands in one's pockets, can crush small loops of soft metal.

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Okay, I pulled out my trusty old vernier calipers... I tend to not be so good about taking it off, but mine is only 0.04 mm eccentric. I guess that means you're almost an order of magnitude more eccentric than I :-)

[sickyprincess.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

An order and a half, by my calculations.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

eccentricity is unitless and equal to sqrt(1-b^2/a^2), not a-b (where a is the semimajor axis and b is the semiminor axis).

[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

This icon is my first wedding ring after I landed on it in a fabulous flying header while rollerblading. Whee! My husband at that point was already on #2, as he had to cut #1 off his hand when he accidentally crushed it in a moving accident. We gave up and ordered half a dozen online. With enough lying around we can usually find one that isn't too damaged to wear out of the house. Eccentric and somewhat scruffy: just like our relationship.

[hello-mike.livejournal.com]

Doesn't eccentricity imply that your ring is a perfect conic section (and therefore a perfect, mathematical ellipse)?

I'm thinking it probably just gets that way through years of wear. And it probably wasn't micrometer-level perfect when you got it anyway.

[caladri.livejournal.com]

You are an awful person.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

PS: where's the control data from vix's? :)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Only you, Fish. Only you. Maybe it's just normal wear.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly hoping it's *abnormal* wear. Keeping up appearances and all...

If you want, fish, I have a ring mandrel and a couple leather/wooden/rubber hammers, very nice for rerounding rings without changing their size.

[jadine.livejournal.com]

ordered half a dozen online

Love it.

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Proving once again that I am clearly a moron at 1:35 AM.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Yes, but how eccentric are you? Inquiring minds want to know.

[tnarg42.livejournal.com]

Apparently, not very. Only 0.05934. Now, I would call that less than one order of magnitude less eccentric, but I'm sure I'll get corrected on *that* too... (To be precise, 0.7455 orders of magnitude less eccentric than fish, but since orders of magnitude are typically integers, one whole order of magnitude less.)

[olafthunderfoot.livejournal.com]

~steals yer ring~

[creeves78.livejournal.com]

radio communications...finally, my last last last class for my bachelors degree. i've been taking the scenic route! ;P

one of these days i'll come up with something interesting enough to post, i promise! (it would help if i were more writing-oriented to begin with, i suppose...)

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

Having only just come across this post, I shall submit mine for verification this evening.

However, I find the second statement of the original post to be a bit suspect...

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort*