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To: bvw
The interior angles of a triangle sum to what number of degrees, wild one?

North Pole to equator going through London, along equator to (0,90); up through New Orleans back to the North Pole. This give 270 degrees. It depends on your definition of line.

295 posted on 01/29/2005 12:58:53 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

A definition is a first postulate, too. BTW -- Lines are even stranger in differential geometry -- one gives up on their "line-ness" and instead calls them paths.


306 posted on 01/29/2005 1:18:52 PM PST by bvw
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