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Re: A question about a sphere

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  • Subject: [mg107106] Re: A question about a sphere
  • From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 06:08:10 -0500 (EST)
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I thought the Babylonians used base 12.

Kevin

David Park wrote:
> Here is an easy solution using the Presentations package. First we
> parametrize a sphere and then draw the sphere, the lines of latitude, and
> the lines of longitude using the parametrization. (We could have just used
> Sphere for the sphere.) I used 6 lines of longitude in honor of the
> Babylonians. 


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