Sentences with phrase «parallel lines meet»

I deduce the writer is just trying to make parallel lines meet.

For example, studying advanced geometry is important because it makes students consider worlds quite different from the world they assume to be «true» — worlds where parallel lines meet, where the shortest distance between two points is a curved line.

Not exact matches

Sometimes ba is the same thing as ab, sometimes it isn't; a + a may be 2a or a according to circumstances; straight lines in a plane may be produced to an infinite distance without meeting, yet not be parallel: and the sum of the angles of a triangle appears to be capable of assuming any value that suits the author's convenience (N58: 385 - 6).

If you reject their axioms, there is nothing to discuss - parallel lines that will never meet.

For Dell (Justin Long) and Kimberly (Emmy Rossum), a meeting in line for comet - watching at an LA cemetery (yes, really) might just turn out to be fate as we experience the relationship's less - than - auspicious beginning, middle and possible end — although you'll end up with a migraine if you try and piece any of this timeline together thanks to parallel universes, jarring time - travel sequences and a distinct lack of logical structure offered by Comet.

As you would expect in a mystery game, there is much more going on than immediately meets the eye — you uncover multiple parallel plot lines that all converge as the game progresses, and small stories of individuals that give you added things to do, and little oddities and curiosities that add flavor.

She met Lenore Tawney, another woman artist driven by parallel lines — in Tawney's case with thread.

Since parallel lines only meet at infinity, so do colonialism and populism meet in neo-colonialism.

Most types of linear perspective are based on the illusion of parallel lines at right angles to the picture plane meeting at a «vanishing point» in the distance.

But hey, you can't prove two parallel lines in Euclidian space never meet, either (unless something has changed drasticly from sophmore Geometry).

If the visual structure of Boolean math is two parallel lines, then Bayesian math is like a star, with multiple streams of data meeting in the center to produce a conclusion.