31 May
2006
31 May
'06
12:44 a.m.
carlo said:
No mathematician can doubt that a straight line is a curve.
of course, if you're talking about a curve that _is_ a straight line, and you want to be absolutely clear, you won't _call_ it a curve, you'll call it a straight line, because that is much less ambiguous. (perhaps even infinitely less ambiguous.) and that is true whether you are a mathematician or not... -bowerbird p.s. and if you asked for "a number of cookies", and i gave you _zero_, would you be inclined to think i had granted your plea?