Difference between revisions of "Talk:Hexagon"
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English please? --[[User:I like pie|I_like_pie]] 20:21, 1 November 2006 (EST) | English please? --[[User:I like pie|I_like_pie]] 20:21, 1 November 2006 (EST) | ||
| − | "Supremum" = "least upper bound." In many situations this just means "maximum," but there are others where it doesn't. For example, in an open set such as the interior of a circle or radius <math>r</math>, there are no two points at a distance <math>2r</math> from each other, but the diameter of the set is still <math>2r</math>. | + | "Supremum" = "least upper bound." In many situations this just means "maximum," but there are others where it doesn't. For example, in an open set such as the interior of a circle or radius <math>r</math>, there are no two points at a distance <math>2r</math> from each other, but the diameter of the set is still <math>2r</math>. Or, if we consider the set <math>\{1, \frac12, \frac13, \ldots\}</math> this set has diameter 1 even though it contains no two points at distance 1 from each other. |
The point was just that there is only one value which is the diameter of a given set. The notion you're trying to capture is something to do with the lengths of paths from points on the hexagon passing through the center, or some such -- it would probably be better just to give the lengths of the apothem and circumradius, instead. | The point was just that there is only one value which is the diameter of a given set. The notion you're trying to capture is something to do with the lengths of paths from points on the hexagon passing through the center, or some such -- it would probably be better just to give the lengths of the apothem and circumradius, instead. | ||
Latest revision as of 12:59, 2 November 2006
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The maximum diameter a hexagon can have is twice its side length, and the minimum is 
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The diameter of a set (by definition) is the supremum of the distances between two points of the set. --JBL 11:55, 1 November 2006 (EST)
English please? --I_like_pie 20:21, 1 November 2006 (EST)
"Supremum" = "least upper bound." In many situations this just means "maximum," but there are others where it doesn't. For example, in an open set such as the interior of a circle or radius 
, there are no two points at a distance 
from each other, but the diameter of the set is still . Or, if we consider the set 
this set has diameter 1 even though it contains no two points at distance 1 from each other.
The point was just that there is only one value which is the diameter of a given set. The notion you're trying to capture is something to do with the lengths of paths from points on the hexagon passing through the center, or some such -- it would probably be better just to give the lengths of the apothem and circumradius, instead.
