Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekig5!tekig4!irenas From: irenas@tekig4.UUCP (Irena Sifrar) Newsgroups: net.astro,net.sci Subject: Re: Dimensions Message-ID: <131@tekig4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 13:48:27 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig4.131 Posted: Wed Jun 12 13:48:27 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 06:13:06 EDT References: <2529@decwrl.UUCP> Reply-To: irenas@tekig4Sifrar.UUCP (Irena Sifrar) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 9 Summary: Your dimensions are very intuitive and the ones with which we all deal every day. Yet there are other dimensions, for example Hausdorff dimension in mathematics. It is abstract, doesn't have much use for a typical man in the street, but helps mathematics. There are other, less intuitive dimensions, too, to which your definition does not apply. Irena Sifrar