From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9294 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Stay Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: An elementary question Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:43:20 -0600 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Mike Stay NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502818453 11985 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2017 17:34:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Categories , scott@cs.cmu.edu To: Patrik Eklund Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Tue Aug 15 19:34:06 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfj6-0002NF-RZ for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 19:34:00 +0200 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:43984) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfiU-0001uO-1w; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:33:22 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dhfi8-0001fL-K8 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:33:00 -0300 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9294 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Patrik Eklund wrote: > What would be the practical applications of that construction? Scan lines on your monitor screen: the rightmost point on the first line has an address or index that is less than the leftmost point on the second. -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~mike http://reperiendi.wordpress.com [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]