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>> That's a whole crapload of jargon, right there.
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> Those are all very basic terms for dealing with non-Euclidean spaces.
> Since we're talking about non-Euclidean spaces, I don't think it's
> uncalled for.
Not uncalled for, no. I'm just impressed that there exist people who
actually know WHAT THE HELL THIS STUFF MEANS!
> That said, you do have something of a point there, so I'll rephrase:
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> I thought we were assuming that the spaces we were talking about come
> with a pre-defined notion of distance, so why is there a need to
> explicitly define it ourselves?
Yeah, that was basically my assumption too.
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