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Re: A question about mirrors



At 09:24 8/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
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.

As touched on in this thread, it is apparent that an object with no
extension in x can display chirality.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!