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Re: Aluminum Sphere for sale
Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
In a message dated 3/16/06 8:06:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Ellipsoid: a 3-dimensional object generated by rotating an ellipse
>about its major or minor axis. All plane sections are ellipses.
Couldn't a section through an ellipsoid be a circle, if that
circle had as its radii the other ellipse axis?
And aren't circles a subset of ellipses?
-Phil LaBudde
(Gary could advertise them as "sphere-ish"?)