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Re: trivial pedagogy

At 06:48 PM 2/16/99 +0100, Mark Sylvaster wrote:
At 13:12 16/02/99 -0500, Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

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4) Go back to the picture of y=f(x) Call it "a frozen shape".

I call it a "photograph" of the wave.


Why not call it a "strobe shot" or an Edgerton ?

regards,

sarma.

(A REALLY trivial point) I call it a "snapshot."

Regards, PRB

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