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Re: display of graphics primitives

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• Subject: [mg101225] Re: display of graphics primitives
• From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:03:40 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 26, 5:53 am, dsmithy <dsmi... at live.ca> wrote:
> On Jun 25, 7:09 am, "Sjoerd C. de Vries" <sjoerd.c.devr... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Why should the grass be green, why do I have to press 'send' when
> > sending mail and why can't I leave my microwave oven door open while
> > it's doing its job? And why, just why don't I ever win the lottery?
>
> LOL! But I think you forgot the classic, "Why is the sky blue?"

we got an answer for that one :)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Why+is+the+sky+blue


> Anyway, thanks for the laugh. I guess I'm just trying to understand
> the thinking (principles) behind Mathematica's language design.
>
>
>
> > Count your blessings. Before V6, you had to enclose Graphics with Show
> > to actually generate visible graphics.
>
> Show... now there's another command I don't really understand the
> point of! For another day, perhaps.
>
>
>
> > Cheers -- Sjoerd