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Re: Orthogonality and Disaster Recovery (fwd)
From: [email protected]
> On Sat, Oct 25, 1997 at 04:28:52PM -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
> > Any idea how a term meaning 'at right angles' came to hold all the various
> > interpretations it now does?...
> >
> > I see this word in a lot of my reading and it almost never implies any sort
> > of 'indipendent multi-variant reference system'.
> I can't believe that you haven't studied vector spaces, Jim. In that
> particular niche of mathematics, the meaning you quote is precisely the
> meaning of 'orthogonal'. Vector algebra underlies a very large part
> of mathematics, and modern physics would not exist without it.
I believe that is Jim's point. The dictionary definition and
"one task, one tool" seem to have quite a gap between them.
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