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Jesse F. Hughes  
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 More options Nov 4 2009, 6:06 pm
Newsgroups: sci.math
From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...@phiwumbda.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:41 -0500
Local: Wed, Nov 4 2009 6:06 pm
Subject: Re: Wikipedia contradiction in re: hyperbolic geometry; and in general, the geometries

mstem...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) writes:
> In article <c28bde2b-e7b7-413f-95bb-2ed64559f...@a32g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Ken Quirici <kquir...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>First, Wikipedia's article on non-euclidean geometry contradicts the
>>article on hyperbolic geometry in that the former says that, in a
>>hyperbolic geometry, given a

>>BTW I can find no way to make sense of the notion of
>>euclidean geometry being a 'union' of hyperbolic and
>>elliptic geometry.

> That notion does seem nonsensical. Where did it come from?

Nonsensical?  How could it be?  This discovery is just another in a
long line of breakthroughs by the King of Science, Archimedes
Plutonium.

I bet you're embarrassed now.

--
Jesse F. Hughes
"There's a thrill that's gone that I'll probably not have in quite the
same way again.  After all, FLT was a unique animal, and we had a
great dance."  -J.S. Harris on "proving" Fermat's last theorem


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