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From: Archimedes Plutonium on 1 Feb 2010 00:45


Enrico wrote:


> Re:
>
> What is your understanding, Enrico and David, if you be so kind to
> tell, can a latitude
> be a side of a triangle in Elliptic geometry, or must every side of
> any triangle in Elliptic
> geometry be segments of a "great-circle".
>
> Equator is the only latitude that will work (Great Circle).
> A striaght line on a sphere is a great circle by definition.
>
> Re:
>
> Apparently from Wolfram, they would say that a Elliptic equilateral
> triangle has no
> bounds in being formed so that there exists a 1 by 1 by 1 degree arc
> equilateral elliptic
> triangle as well as a 60 by 60 by 60. Is that true, Enrico and David?
>
> It looks like its true - In playing with the graphics applets, it
> seems that I can position 3 great circles to get an equilateral
> triangle, the move them evenly to get the triangle as small as i like.
>
> I've been surfing the various sites for non-euclidian geometry all
> afternoon - Hyperbolic is the one that's real tough for me to
> visualize, so here's another site with good tools, for free:
>
> http://cs.unm.edu/~joel/NonEuclid/NonEuclid.html
>
>
> Enrico

I never tread into hyperbolic, being too tough for what little gain I
exact.

Appreciate the help you provided. At the moment I am stuck.

Stuck with wanting 10% and not getting it.

Unless I can think of something else, I should abandon this attempt.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
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