Mystery repeat container box: Is there a name for a box that when opened contains another box? This repeats infinitely. One problem solved only illustrates another related problem?

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Is there a name for a box that when opened contains another box? This repeats infinitely.
One problem solved only illustrates another related problem?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Iron Sight wrote:

Is there a name for a box that when opened contains another box? This repeats infinitely.
One problem solved only illustrates another related problem?

Try 'Matryoshka dolls' for starters, though they tend to be a little more ornate than simple boxes. (Wonder how the same repeating --but smaller, and smaller, and smaller....-- concept might work with a Pandora's Box? Hmmm.)

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I’m not sure what it’s called. But I have a bottle of Russian Vodka. It is inside a wooden doll. That is in another doll. That is also in another wooden doll. After opening the doll five times, I’m too tired to take a drink. That is why I like my single malt scotch. I’ll try to look on google but I’ve never hear of a box like that

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Scruples wrote:

I’m not sure what it’s called. But I have a bottle of Russian Vodka. It is inside a wooden doll. That is in another doll. That is also in another wooden doll. After opening the doll five times, I’m too tired to take a drink. That is why I like my single malt scotch. I’ll try to look on google but I’ve never hear of a box like that

After a little search, this are called Matryoshka or Babushka dolls it’s boxes. It is a Russian type gift given to symbolize nesting of dolls or boxes. It is usually given to children to play with the dolls (not the liquor) or the boxes. The outside is ornately painted.

Happy Shooting!

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Then there's also the 'Schrödinger's Cat' proposition. But that's about cats (of course), not boxes, so it might not infinitely apply.

Considering your initial question, though, it might be more useful to stick with whatever Pandora's Matryoshka Box syndrome you may be encountering. Bet its something software related....

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Don’t talk to me about Schrodinger’s Cat. I had a discussion with my engineer son six years ago. My head still hurts.

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Scruples wrote:

Don’t talk to me about Schrodinger’s Cat. I had a discussion with my engineer son six years ago. My head still hurts.

Time to move on to Bertrand Russell’s teacup.

Orson Burleigh Loc: Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Cany143 wrote:

Then there's also the 'Schrödinger's Cat' proposition. But that's about cats (of course), not boxes, so it might not infinitely apply.

Considering your initial question, though, it might be more useful to stick with whatever Pandora's Matryoshka Box syndrome you may be encountering. Bet its something software related....

Pandora's Matryoshka Box syndrome, as PMB syndrome or as PMBS, has real promise. The inspiring concept might well under-gird promising lines of post-graduate research and development in engineering (adamantinely hard subject), software development (medium hard subject), economics (fundamentally fuzzy subject), theoretical anthropology (crunchy subject), political science (subjective subject) or psychology (a subject with multiple personalities). Doctorates will be available for everyone except Engineers. Engineers don’t need no stinkin’ PhDs.

ronpilot Loc: Lake Wallenpaupack in the Poconos, PA

Nesting.

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

Trying to comprehend but answers only open infinitely more questions.
The subject is incomprehensible.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Boring? How to keep an idiot busy? Waste of time?

Google wasn't any help.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Scruples wrote:

Don’t talk to me about Schrodinger’s Cat. I had a discussion with my engineer son six years ago. My head still hurts.

Schrodniger's Cat is just a cop-out. If you don't know the answer, you say it could be either - or both.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

Cany143 wrote:

Then there's also the 'Schrödinger's Cat' proposition. But that's about cats (of course), not boxes, so it might not infinitely apply.

Considering your initial question, though, it might be more useful to stick with whatever Pandora's Matryoshka Box syndrome you may be encountering. Bet its something software related....

Quite a different subject, it is about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

jerryc41 wrote:

Schrodniger's Cat is just a cop-out. If you don't know the answer, you say it could be either - or both.

If you want to drive someone nuts, make them count potato chips in a bag. Or how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?

dragonswing Loc: Pa

When it is just a box within a box, gradually decreasing in size, they are called nesting boxes