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Re: A question about mirrors

Others have already mentioned the "standard" definition of handedness
which goes something like this:

An object has the property of handedness if, when transformed by x ->
-x, it can not be superimposed on its transformed form.

What's wrong with this definition?

Glenn A. Carlson, P.E.
St. Charles County Community College
St. Peters, MO
gcarlson@mail.win.org