Saturday, December 22, 2007

straight line!

Ever wondered what is a straight line?

[try to define it without the notion of a distance! - what mathematicians call topological space - not necessarily metric space]

Here is a definition:
straight line is a line which lies evenly with the points on itself.

plucking your hair trying to parse the sentence?
BTW, it is by none other than great Euclid!

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