At 20:09 -0500 2/9/98, Serg Koren wrote:
>---- On Mon Feb  9 16:29:04 1998, Travis Griggs said ------
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>>> >Eliot
>>>
>>> I disagree: a point is NOT a magnitude.
>>
>>And I agree, or, er, uh, I disagree too.
>>
>
>But a point IS a location.  And some locations are bigger than others ;-)
>S

And some are 'smaller' and some are neither. In fact, of all randomly
selected points, fully half are neither greater-than nor less-than another
such randomly seleccted point.

There is also some possibility to discuss what it means for one point to be
bigger than another.

Dave

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