On Jul 16, 2009, at 4:55 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: (01)
> It always bothered me that dimensional analysis made angles
> dimensionless, when they are of such profound physical
> significance. Clearly, direction of length matters. The fact is,
> 'length' should be treated as a vector rather than a scalar. (02)
Uh -- given a length of a stick, what's the origin of the coordinate
system in the vector case? Don't you need both length and angle as
independent things? (03)
> This also, btw, helps with distinguishing length from width from
> height. But this is probably going too far out in left field for
> this forum :-) (04)
On ontolog? Seriously? (05)
I am eager to see the concrete steps under way. This is a very
interesting progression of work. (06)
John (07)
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: http://marinemetadata.org (08)
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