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What is a straight line?
Re: What is a straight line?
Surely, a straight line is a circle with a radius of zero?
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Re: What is a straight line?
^ IIRC a circle with a radius of zero is one definition of a mathematical singularity
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Re: What is a straight line?
I seem to recall reading that a straight line is a segment of a circle of infinite radius.
Also, it is the shortest locus of all points between two separate points.
How can such a simple concept be so difficult to explain?!
Also, it is the shortest locus of all points between two separate points.
How can such a simple concept be so difficult to explain?!
Best wishes, Dave B
Re: What is a straight line?
Why can North Koreans draw the best straight lines?
Because they have a supreme ruler.
Because they have a supreme ruler.
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Re: What is a straight line?
Being used to live and think in a 3-dimensional world, the proper mindset to get a grasp of the intimate details of a one-dimensional line is not easy to obtain. As an in-between, it may help if you study this literature first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
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Hendrik-Jan
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Re: What is a straight line?
Easy
A straight line is just a confused circle
A straight line is just a confused circle
Re: What is a straight line?
Does a straight line have an end or does it continue beyond the points on that line?
Re: What is a straight line?
Wouldn't it depend how much ink is in the pen ?
Re: What is a straight line?
Trooping the Colour today
Straight
Straight-ish
Oh dear
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Straight
Straight-ish
Oh dear
Available on BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0017xfk/ at 1:03:43 , 1:28:16 , 1:50:52
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Re: What is a straight line?
Also its not possible to have parallel lines!