Pythagoras Cup (Greedy Cup) filled with Mercury
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One of my co-workers went to a conference in Greece,and came back with a present,of something which is very old,from 400 years B.C. or even earlier,but I'd never seen before.It's called the Pythagoras Cupand it has this strange bit sticking up in the middle.And the story isthat this cup was invented by Pythagoras.The one that worked on right-angled triangles.He invented it so when he gave his students wine,that they all got the same amountand if somebody was greedy,that studentgot his comeuppanceIt behaves normally,until you get to this gold ring here, the one I am running my finger around,not the one one up here.And if you fill it above that,that's somewhere between these two,suddenly,all the liquid in the glassdrains outand through a hole i...
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One of my co-workers went to a conference in Greece,and came back with a present,of something which is very old,from 400 years B.C. or even earlier,but I'd never seen before.It's called the Pythagoras Cupand it has this strange bit sticking up in the middle.And the story isthat this cup was invented by Pythagoras.The one that worked on right-angled triangles.He invented it so when he gave his students wine,that they all got the same amountand if somebody was greedy,that studentgot his comeuppanceIt behaves normally,until you get to this gold ring here, the one I am running my finger around,not the one one up here.And if you fill it above that,that's somewhere between these two,suddenly,all the liquid in the glassdrains outand through a hole i...
