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In the 1920s and ’30s and perhaps, in some places, yet today, telephone lines were formed out of 1000-foot lengths of wire cables spliced together. These cables, in simplified form, have a crosssection which looks like this:
Each little circle is the crosssection of a wire carrying a single conversation.
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Childs, L. (1979). Telephone Cable Splicing. In: A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0065-6_33
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