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Old Sat Jan 06, 2007, 04:34pm
eg-italy eg-italy is offline
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Originally Posted by Mark Dexter
A cone needs to come to a point, so I don't think it applies to the BI rule. - Mr. Annoying Geometry Guy.
Well, if you consider points at infinity in projective geometry , a cylinder may be considered as a cone. But an exposition of projective geometry in three-dimensional space seems a bit off-topic here, doesn't it?

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