 | Hastings Berkeley - 1910 - 279 sider
...Geometry, Part I/ in the Encyclopaedia Britannica,1 when he remarks that ' Euclid's Definition 4, 1 — A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points — must be meaningless to any one who has not the notion of straightness in his mind/ And the remark... | |
 | Thomas Aloysius O'Donahue - 1911 - 288 sider
...beginning of magnitude, but which has no magnitude, ie has neither length, breadth, nor thickness. A line is length without breadth. The extremities of a line are pointa A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points, and is the shortest distance... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - 544 sider
...another number. (6) A legislator is a member either of the House of Commons or of the House of Lords. (c) A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. (d) An idle person is one who will not work when he can. 4. Show by examples the nature of the mistakes... | |
 | H. E. Licks - 1917 - 224 sider
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always... | |
 | H. E. Licks - 1917 - 172 sider
...treatises on that subject. A point is defined to be that "which has no parts and which has no magnitude"; a straight line is that which "lies evenly between its extreme points." ... In this case the explanation is a great deal harder than the term to be explained, which must always... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - 1923 - 260 sider
...said John Enderby, "henceforth let us stick to the narrow path. What is it that the Good Book says : 'A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points.' " X THE MAN IN ASBESTOS AN ALLEGORY OF THE FUTURE X. — The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future.... | |
 | 1874 - 500 sider
...a definition is to be attempted at all, it would be hard to produce a better than the old one — " A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points ;" but, of course, the word evenly as much requires definition as the word straight. Mr. Wilson adds... | |
 | 1906 - 600 sider
...has no magnitude. 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 6. A superficies is that which has only length and breadth. 7. A plane superficies is that in which,... | |
 | 1874 - 546 sider
...a definition is to be attempted at all, it would be hard to produce a better than the old one — " A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points ;" but, of course, the word evenly as much requires definition as the word straiyht. Mr. Wilson adds... | |
 | I. N. Herstein, Irving Kaplansky - 1978 - 256 sider
...has no magnitude. 2. A line is length without breadth. 3. The extremities of a line are points. 4. A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. Styles of mathematical exposition have changed. These are highly descriptive phrases, somewhat in the... | |
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A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points. 
