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Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Sunday, February 29, 2004, 21:05
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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