Must be future engineers...

[markem]

Originally Posted by QUAZY50

Agreed, but then couldn't your straight line be infinitesimally small? This way the length of said line approches zero... Correct?

a point is not a line. basic geometry.

The whole point is to pick on the lack of accuracy in the English language.

[QUAZY50]

Originally Posted by markem

a point is not a line. basic geometry.

The whole point is to pick on the lack of accuracy in the English language.

I understand that.. My point is that if you can place two points infinitesmally close together, you can draw and infinitesmally small line between them... thus making that answer still true. However, if the points are coincident (sharing the same space) then the answer is zero and not a line because the line wouldn't be between them.

No where did I say a line was a point, even though, technically you could argue an infinitesmally small line is a point because a point has no length or diameter, or width or anything.

I completely derailed this thread, sorry.