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- adjective rare Alternative spelling of
Euclidean .
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Examples
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Of course we dont have a single example of non euclidean geometry existing, none physicists could detect.
Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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February 14, 2010 at 9:51 am a weird packing foam structure that comes in the box for the new laptop you ordered from Best Buy, but which appears on closer inspection to be designed to fit and cushion not an ordinary laptop, but an unknowable item of non-euclidean dimensions.
Cramming Weird 2010
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At the same time I was just getting into reading stories by HP Lovecraft, all that barely-restrained hysteria and cosmic horror, mind-cracking abominations bubbling up from beneath the floorboards of non-euclidean, rat-infested cellars, or leering from the dark, unbalanced vistas painted by former inmates of some creaking Providence institution whose walls are stained with the shrieks of vanished patients….
The Blue Oyster Cult – A Lifelong Fascination With High Weirdness « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010
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But that still that non euclidean geometry is a vibrant and active field.
Evidence that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong? - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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I have to figure out how to fit "non-euclidean" in there someplace and I've got an H.P. Lovecraft story on my hands.
Today is the greatest day I've ever known... wendigomountain 2008
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This is non euclidean geometry at its most shocking!
The Disinherited (A Comic Sci-Fi Western) Fresca 2009
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Another example to show this fascinating elevation to non-euclidean, gravitational lensing, could be seen in this same light.
The Lopsided Universe Sean 2008
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The conformal coordinate z is to be identified as exp (tau + i sigma), where tau is euclidean time, and and 0 infinity, and we typically do not want to impose boundary conditions in the infinite future.
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The way to love can sometimes be hard, full of obstacles… even non euclidean!
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The way to love can sometimes be hard, full of obstacles… even non euclidean!
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