At 8:29 PM +0100 4/9/04, Jim Dixon wrote: >Traffic was following a geodesic -- >but not a geographic geodesic.
Right. Geodesic is a topologic content. In three (two?) dimensions, a geodesic is a great circle route across a sphere. In higher dimensions, it's something else. No. I don't know the math. :-) Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
