A
nut (or
ball) is an
endpoint of a
loopstring.
String only have two (
2)
endpoints, hence, there are only
two nuts.
Egglepple-wise, each
nut is either a
start or
stop identifier (
leaf).
* As an arbitrary
ordered pair [
egg,
epp], they are referred to as
abscissa (
toonlight) and
ordinate (
funshine).
The two nuts of TOS are the Planck scale and the nanoscale, connected by Egglepple.
/// Balls are pseudo-theoretical (abstract) objects that only exist as placement functions. There is no 'ball', so-to-speak, just a representation of an endpoint (dot). However, in gameplay, a ball can be a toy (eg. ctf flag🏁, see zero-bubble). Likewise, macroeconomically, a ball would be lyric (triangulated data point).
Mathematically, it's called a '
ball' (and sometimes 'dot') because as the
string folds upon itself, the
endpoints (a
metric space) coordinate ("connecting the dots") into a
loop, and the overall structure usually assumes a shape that is similar to some ovoid with
boundary (cf., compact blob) in
stereo. (see also
ballet)
