Re: OT: coins and currency (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 7, 2006, 20:27 |
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On 1/7/06, Tim May <butsuri@...> wrote:
> I'm not sure what distinction you're making between "rectangular" and
> "oblong"; the two words are effectively synonymous to me.
Rectangular objects have corners; oblong ones don't. The
archetypical oblong shape is a circle cut in half and extended via
straight lines between the previously-connected endpoints of the
semicircles; the result is not an ellipse, but a different form of
"stretched circle".
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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