Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

Quoting Herman Miller <hmiller@...>:

>  in the same way that
> "space" can be used informally for either area or volume.
Isn't that the wrong way round? At least for me, "space" in informal/non-
technical speech is always volume, whereas in math I'm equally happy to speak
of spaces of one, two or forty-nine dimensions as of three.

                                                Andreas

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