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From: cc@locus.ucla.edu (Mitch)
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Subject: Re: Triangles in Space
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Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 00:31:35 EST
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   Maybe I should have caught up on this newsgroup before rushing off
that last reply.  I seem to be the only one to interpret "space" in the
original posting as referring to the final frontier.

   If we must think of it in terms of pure geometry, why this silly 
preference for a space with zero curvature?  If we assume positive
curvature, as for Riemannian spherical geometry, we lend an entirely 
new twist to the problem.
   Seriously, consider three points chosen in such a space - I think the
problem is a little more interesting.

   Mitch Gunzler


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   and then I said, "alright, what IS the 3n+1 problem?"