Hierarchy, Force Monopoly, and Geodesic Societies

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 8:29 PM +0100 4/9/04, Jim Dixon wrote:
>Traffic was following a geodesic --
>but not a geographic geodesic.

Right.

Geodesic is a topologic content. In three (two?) dimensions, a geodesic is
a great circle route across a sphere. In higher dimensions, it's something
else.

No. I don't know the math.

:-)

Cheers,
RAH

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