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Have Area? Measuring Points Subject: Reply to ""Reply to "Re: Do Points Have Area?"" Author: Candice Hebden <dreamy_aurora@hotmail.com> Date: 22 Jan 98 21:51:33 -0500 (EST) Hey Jesse--- In respect to your Points, when you measure the distance between two Points, do you measure from??? a. the center of the two points, b. from the sides facing each other, or c. from the opposite sides? If your answer is a, how can you have a center to the smallest circular mesurement??? Wouldn't that center have to be at a Point??? So then the center of a Point is a Point which is a Point to infinity! If your answer is b, how can you have area that doesn't exist??? Because if you want to find the length between Point A and Point B, and there exists a Point C (which is colinear with A and B) which is between Point A and Point B. Because AC+CB=AB when the points are colinear, we must account for the length in Point C... which is not measured with AC or with CB, so then, in your circular geometry, AC + CB does not equal AB. AC + CB < AB If your answer is c, how can you count up area twice... in the above scenario with this answer, AC + CB > AB Candice Hebden @ dreamy_aurora@hotmail.com
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