POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Dimensions : Re: Dimensions Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:24:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dimensions  
From: Darren New
Date: 12 Jan 2010 16:52:03
Message: <4b4cef03$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> What about xyz = the ratio of any circle's circumference to its 
>>> diameter?
>>
>> Define "circle".
> 
> The set of all points at distance r from the point c.
> 
>> Now define "distance".
> 
> I actually can't find a definition for how to do this in a non-Euclidean 
> space.

Oh, I forgot. Now you have to also define the length of a curved line with 
no endpoints. :)

> Well, yes... I'm sure somebody somewhere has long since worked all this 
> out in excruciating detail. ;-)

Well, yes.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?


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