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From: Ian Witham
Date: 3 Aug 2000 05:59:16
Message: <39894274@news.povray.org>
"Steve" <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
news:slr### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain...
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:59:59 -0500, Mike wrote:
> >But can you make an un-twisted, un-rolled, un-torus while keeping the
> >two ends together?  Wrap your mind around that one!
>
> If it was an infinite length then due to some law of physics I think
> the ends would meet weather you wanted them to or not.

That would be obtuse non-Euclidean geometry, where space is boundless yet
finite, the 3d equivalent of a 2d system drawn on the surface of a sphere.


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