Questions of size...

[Ray Dillinger]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, petro wrote:

>Mr. Brown (in the library with a candlestick) said:
>
>>(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
>>this strange Marxist idea that politics is just an emergent property of
>>economics :-)

Just by the way, how widespread is this use of the word 'geodesic'?  

Offhand, I'd refer to many of the things I've seen it used for here 
as 'distributed' or 'fractal'.  Is 'geodesic' an accepted term of art 
for a network or protocol in which all the parts work roughly the same 
way?

					Bear