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If a point is dimensionless, how then a line is formed by a set of points?

 

Mathematically, this is sum of zeros. All definitions of a line are that it has no “width” but should it also be true that it should ahs no “length”?

 

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  • on 2010-12-14 19:27:38
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gaulyt says:

A line is not formed by a set of points; a line consists of a set of points.

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posted on 2010-12-19 19:14:28 | Report abuse


 
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Jon-Richfield says:

I see what you mean and I agree with your intention, but the wording is confusing. Remember that a set has no structure beyond containing particular elements. Consequently consider (rather simplistically) that a house and a pile of bricks might comprise the same set of bricks, but that does not mean that the pile of bricks is a house, nor that one could not make very different houses from the same set of bricks.

Similarly, a line is more than just the set of points; those points have particular interrelationships, or there is no line.

Certainly, as I assume you meant, we cannot construct a line point by point, nor see it if we could, whereas there is no point on a line that does not in principle have its own identity as a mathematical concept (though that is far from true in any physical sense).

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