The Three Lines
The Black Void - Episode 251
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All three lines intersect at a single point. I tear an unused sheet of
graph paper out of my math notebook, and copy them, trying to get the
angle that the third one makes to the other two - which I interpret as
axes - correct. As far as I can see, it precisely bisects them.
Of course, if the first two lines - the ones that cross each other at right angles - are intended to be axes, then they really ought to be infinite in length, but the finite size of the lawn does not permit that. There again, neither does my finite sheet of graph paper. Frustratingly, the lines aren't labelled, so I don't know which one is the real axis and which the imaginary. Nor do I know which direction along them is meant to be positive and which negative. In drawing the pattern, I arbitrarily decide that the third line should go from the negative/negative to the positive/positive quadrant, but rotating the diagram through 90 or 270 degrees would give alternative possibilities that would be equally valid.
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JH
12/4/2004 10:28:56 AM
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