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- From: null@diku.dk (Niels Ull Jacobsen)
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- Subject: Re: 3d programming
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:47:06 GMT
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Sender: null@tyr.diku.dk
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- >Considered by whom? 8th grade students? This is bullsh*t.
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- [...]
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- We're drifting into a flame war here.
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- 1. This isn't appropriate to most of the groups it's crossposted to.
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- 2. In math, a word means *exactly* what you *define* it to mean. It is
- thus meaningless to discuss whether a vector is a tuple or whether a
- point a a vector - it is if you define it to be. It seems that people
- are using different definitions, but, like axioms, no definitions are
- more *correct* than the others. I could define a vector as an object
- having a color and a temperature, and it wouldn't be less correct than
- any of the other definitions. Less useful, perhaps, but not less
- correct. But this is (perhaps) a topic for sci.math, not for these
- newsgroups.
-
- So let's end it here.
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- Niels Ull Jacobsen, Dep. of CS, U of Copenhagen (null@diku.dk)
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