From: spudnik on
orthogonality of the three axes isn't required, although
it is at least possible (not in 4d, except in a particular way
in quaternions, which is vectors).

Time is not a dimension. --Are Buckafka Fullofit

thus:
yeah, Draco; don't know enough Greek history, myself. now, as for
republicanism, note the small R. the first historical republics
in Europe were hardly democratic, but almost no American Republicans,
that I have asked at club meetings, know the meaning
of the word, republic. (it's as if they all read the E.Brittanica,
as toddlers -- I've met all three of them !-)

>   Oh, and Democrats HATE Democracy as well. You can tell by how much
> energy (and other people's money) they expend to manipulate voters.

thus:
applied math is a subset of pure math but,
without numbertheory, math itself would be impossible. so,
what is ECKS grav?

thus:
interesting, or would be without the usual zero-level of math in
Sci.Am.;
more interesting to me is the admission, "owned by Nature Publishing"
--
I thought, British mind-**** pop-sci was limited to Nude Scientist
(and
the Lord Berty's Moral Rearmement thingy .-)

--BP's cap&trade bill is before the Senate, and it is no-different
than Waxman's '91 cap&trade bill -- except that the WSUrinal calls it,
inexplicably, Captain Tax!
http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/