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- From: orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
- Subject: Incident: definition?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct14.202215.13337@sophia.smith.edu>
- Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, US
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:22:15 GMT
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- Is there a generally-accepted definition of the term "incident"
- that works in several contexts? An arc of a graph (x,y) is
- incident to the nodes x and y. An edge of an arrangement of
- lines is incident to a vertex if that vertex is an endpoint of
- the closure of the edge. Note in this last case, incidence does
- not imply nonempty intersection, because arrangement edges
- are usually considered open segments. Are adjacent faces of
- a polytope considered incident? I think not.
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