Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)

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From: Grant Edwards
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00

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R. Mounce (mounce@u.washington.edu) wrote:

: Sometimes, I'll admit, I think of the earth as flat.

I quite often think of the earth as flat.  While navigating cities streets,
the approximation is quite useful. It makes the geometry simpler to assume
that streets running north and south are parallel.

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Grant Edwards        | Microsoft isn't the   | Yow!  Is it clean in other
Rosemount Inc.       | answer. Microsoft     | dimensions?
                     | is the question, and  | 
grante@rosemount.com | the answer is no.     |

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From: grante@reddwarf.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)
Date: 1995/05/14
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