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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 17 Jan 2007.
Re: request please for an ascii drawing of a saddle and a hu

Re: request please for an ascii drawing of a saddle and a huge ball that would fit into the saddle; for math

On 17 Jan 2007 16:13:30 GMT, Nicolas George <nicolas$geo...@salle-s.org> tried
to confuse everyone with this message:

>Faux_Pseudo  wrote in message <iQqrh.57582$kn7...@newsfe23.lga>:
>>> This is a ascii art for math and sci.math. Can someone please draw a
>>> saddle and then draw a huge ball that
>>> would sit on top of the saddle as to ride the saddle. The idea is that
>>> the ball is Riem geom and the saddleshape
>>> is Lobachevskian geom.
>> 
>> What is a lobachevskian geom?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry
>> Or a Reim geom?
>> http://images.google.com/images?q=Riemannian%20geometry
>
>He probably means respectively hyperbolic and parabolic.

Elliptic, not parabolic.

>I hate it when people use the name of someone instead of a meaningful name
>to designate a mathematical object.

These names are traditional in some countries, like former USSR where
Lobachevsky is considered one of the greatest mathematicians ever.

>> How big did you want this thing?  This big?
>>               __
>>              (  )
>>               \/     _
>>              / \`---' \
>>             /_.-\_.--._\
>> 
>

No ASCII art from me, because I have an exam soon and unfortunately it's quantum
physics, not math...

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Subject: Re: request please for an ascii drawing of a saddle and a huge ball that would fit into the saddle; for math
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