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dwise1

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Message 436 of 438 (916314)
02-29-2024 8:18 PM

Reply to: Message 427 by Omnivorous
02-28-2024 6:27 PM

Re: I was wondering...

I'm orthagonal. Everyone is wrong.

Self-contradictory. How could anyone be wrong if every axis is right?

Actually, I was angling for saying "angle" instead of "axis".

ABE:

Explanation for the non-mathematical minded.

Many coördinate systems are orthogonal, which means that each axis is at right angles to all the others.

For example, in a 2D space, the X and Y axes are at right angles (90°) to each other. In a 3D space, you add a Z axis which is at right angles to both the X and the Y axes. In nD space (for any integer value of n) each axis is at right angles to all the others even though our limited minds are incapable of visualizing that.

Edited by dwise1, : ABE to break the cardinal rule of not killing a joke by explaining it

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Message 437 of 438 (916329)
03-01-2024 4:52 AM

Reply to: Message 436 by dwise1
02-29-2024 8:18 PM

Re: I was wondering...

dwise1 writes:

I'm orthagonal. Everyone is wrong.

Self-contradictory. How could anyone be wrong if every axis is right?

I include myself in "everyone" and thus remain confidently tentative.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.