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To: RightWhale

A geometry where the metric is a quadratic form (aren't they all?) with 3 positive and 1 negative eigenvalue (or the reverse.) Other quadratic forms give rise to different geometries.


120 posted on 08/04/2006 8:27:26 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic

Okay. I hadn't heard it before, or if I had heard it, it didn't register. But then probably a lot hasn't registered in my mental metric as yet.


122 posted on 08/04/2006 8:34:08 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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