Forget It: Moving On from Past Mistakes

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Start date Dec 8, 2007

Dec 8, 2007

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Nevermind.

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Dec 8, 2007

Office_Shredder

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I was so excited when I saw the thread title too :(

Dec 8, 2007

quasar987

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:-)

I was just that I misread the definition. Or rather, I thought I had made a typo while copying it mindlessly from the blackboard.

Dec 9, 2007

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Office_Shredder said:

I was so excited when I saw the thread title too :(

Here's a fun exercise: Show that there is a subset of the plane that intersects every line at precisely two points.

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