26 Jun
2011
26 Jun
'11
3:45 p.m.
I don't actually know the answer to this, but it immediately calls to mind a favourite mathematical model from long ago, of a (filled) ellipsoid constructed from two families of interlocking circular discs. WFL On 6/26/11, Stephen B. Gray <stevebg@roadrunner.com> wrote:
A and B are points on an ellipsoid E. S is the shortest path on the ellipsoid's surface between A and B .
Does S always lie in a plane?
Steve Gray
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