Re: Gasket analogy

From: John Burgeson (burgy@compuserve.com)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 14:51:35 EDT

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    Dave wrote:

    "First, Burgy, Glenn is right on the matter of Sierpinski's gasket. Note
    that the point moves half the distance toward another point. Even if we get
    a large number of moves in the same direction, the moving point can only
    approach the fixed point. "

    If this happens, we get a straight line of course. I suppose one could call
    this a very degraded form of the gasket case, in which case you would be
    correct.

    Was it not Lincoln who, when asked how many legs a dog would have if we
    called the tail a leg, answered wisly, "Four. Calling the tail a leg does
    not make it one."

    Burgy



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