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Re: Mathematics Question
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Mar 30, 08:14 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2006 Mar 30, 08:14 -0500
I call it a spherical cup. Some mathematicians call it a "spherical cap" :-) Others call it a "disc on the sphere", and even a "spherical disc". A On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Robert Eno wrote: > A math question for list: > > Given that a segment of a circle > is called an "arc", can anyone > tell me what its two-dimensional > equivalent on a sphere is called? > > Robert >
