Re: Multiple Inheritance and "rigid" properties
At 9:34 AM +0100 6/22/00, martin_king@uk.ibm.com wrote:
>Chris, I am willing to be corrected by a better mathematician than myself,
>but I believe I was taught that at least one widely accepted definition of
>an ellipse included the particular case whose two diameters are equal, i.e.
>a circle. I do not reject the possibility of a dfferent definition which
>excludes this particular case.
>
>Yours, Martin
Next thing you're going to tell me is that a whale is not a fish.
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I will have to reformulate this one.....
-Chris
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