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RE: [OM] TOPE 14 Moose' pic (SO, ISO) (OT)

Subject: RE: [OM] TOPE 14 Moose' pic (SO, ISO) (OT)
From: Marc Lawrence <mlawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:13:31 +1000
> Timpe, Jim [mailto:Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> The ISO is from 'isosceles', as in triangle, as in three
> EQUAL sides.

Doesn't an isosceles triangle have (at least) *two* equal
sides (three equal sides being "equilateral", but still a
type of isosceles), the name coming from "iso" (equal) and
sceles (skelos=leg)?

It doesn't change your point though :-)

Cheers
Marc (trying to remember his school-maths)
Sydney, Oz

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