Mon Sep 08, 2008, 05:20pm
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee
Aren't lines, by definition, straight?
A line can be described as an ideal zero-width, infinitely long, perfectly straight curve (the term curve in mathematics includes "straight curves") containing an infinite number of points. In Euclidean geometry, exactly one line can be found that passes through any two points. The line provides the shortest connection between the points.
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There has been way too much freaking math on this forum today. 
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