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Subject: Re: Mathematical Question
From: Paul Hirose (paulhirose@XXX.XXX)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 02:04:36 EDT
"A plane that cuts the sphere divides it into two spherical segments
and its surface into two spherical caps, which are equal if the
section is a great circle." (from "The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of
Mathematics")
The illustrations make it more clear:
spherical segment = the solid body "chopped off" from the sphere
spherical cap = the curved surface of that body
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