nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704A-Liber) (01/22/88)
[follow this up to sci.math. It never really belonged in comp.lang.c.]
In article <5080015@hpfcdc.HP.COM> boemker@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Tim Boemker) writes:
.Zero does symmetrically divide the number line. Symmetry does not necessarily
.mean that the number line is divided into two pieces of equal length. In this
.case, it can mean that -x and +x are equally distant from 0. (By the way, I
.am not promoting the use of zero as a magic number.)
All numbers symmetrically divide the number line. That is what translation of
coordinates is all about. If n is the number dividing the number line, then
the line is divided symetrically about n.
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