Re: Latest version of glossary


"Mark Johnson" <102334.12@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"dawn" <dawnwolthuis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


flat: an object which by any definition could be considered as 2
dimensional might informally be called flat.

I would think so. It poses certain problems, which may not seem so
great to those in the flat-land. But they could not be flat, at all,
with less than two dimensions.

Do you think this set of points
http://www.saltspring.com/brochmann/math/Fractals/fractal-4/fractal-4.00.html
should be characterized as flat ?

P.S. Interesting opinions about math and teaching at the same site:

http://www.saltspring.com/brochmann/Schmath/questions.html
http://www.saltspring.com/brochmann/Schmath/Jerry%20Uhl%27s%20favorite%20quotations.htm


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