At Monday 2003-08-18 02:43, you wrote:
Guillaume Melquiond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| In the case of a 1-dimension space, connected and convex set are | equals: they are segments (or half-line or line or empty). Date | manipulated by the date-time library are in a 1-dimension space (the | real line) and periods are segments (non-empty bounded convex | sets). So when you have two periods, the smallest period enclosing | these two is also the convex hull of them. Hence the name I suggested.
that is fine for some mathematically oriented mind. However, it is a terrible name.
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