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- From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
- Subject: Re: How do you draw a straight line?
- Message-ID: <L5P7HTG@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Originator: guckes@medusa
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- Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
- References: <stephen.718357265@mont> <1992Oct6.142703.20829@b11.b11.ingr.com> <1ass0lINNhc2@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Oct6.232636.20173@linus.mitre.org> <PCL.92Oct7090415@black.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:56:08 GMT
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- pcl@oxford.ac.uk (Paul Leyland) writes:
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- >I've known people who *define* "straight line" to be equivalent to "geodesic",
- >on the grounds that "a straight line is the "shortest distance between two
- >points".
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- How do these people define "distance" ?
- I always wonder if mathematicians are the only people who might
- understand that there's more than one definition of "distance".
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- >Paul Leyland <pcl@oxford.ac.uk> | Hanging on in quiet desperation is
- >Oxford University Computing Service | the English way.
- >13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, UK | The time is come, the song is over.
- >Tel: +44-865-273200 Fax: +44-865-273275 | Thought I'd something more to say.
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- I always wondered where O.W. got the term "Bunbury" from ...
-
- Sven :)
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