Re: What shape is this.

On Apr 17, 12:03 am, Bob Casanova <nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:20:45 -0700 (PDT), the following


I would define a torus as a "circle looped in a circle".
Where *loop* takes on the connotation of *blowing a bubble*.

But I would not define the (hole in the middle) as a circle.

The projection of the inner edge of the torus onto a plane
is a circle.


A torus has no edges. And your delusions are projecting.


And for lesson 101 in hypocrisy we have...


Since when we look "down" onto the torus our
eyes are essentially viewing that plane it's perfectly
reasonable, although not mathematically rigorous, to
describe the "hole in the middle" as a circle.


Ah. Bun that would be *totally* "mathematically ridiculous" to
do the same with the earth?.




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