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From: alain@dgp.toronto.edu (Alain Fournier)
Subject: Re: A Question of Perspective (?)
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Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI
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Date:	Sat, 25 Jun 88 13:05:07 EDT

In <350001@hpcvlx.HP.COM> ben@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Benjamin Ellsworth) writes:
> A disc 3" in diameter at 10ft has the same perceived size as a 
> disc of what diameter at 100ft?

The world is complicated enough as it stands, why use a crazy unit system
that makes it worse?
(by the way, the word "perceived" make the question considerably tougher
than naive geometry, whether it was intended or not).