Re: How do you draw a straight line?

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From: Aephraim M. Steinberg
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:38

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In article <12950087@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM> ric@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
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>How about a taught string?

Exactly, but I think the question was: how do you teach it?

(Besides, if the string has any mass and is in any gravitational field
whatever, then any finite tension will still leave it a catenary, just
a straighter and straighter one.  I believe the question was one of
principle.)

-- 
Aephraim M. Steinberg                    | "WHY must I treat the measuring
UCB Physics                              | device classically??  What will
aephraim@physics.berkeley.edu            | happen to me if I don't??"
                                         |       -- Eugene Wigner

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