Did u know that?? I didn't. Last night while talking gibberish with a friend, I stumbled upon this fact and the conversation turned out quite..... lemme say.... confusing.
Me: Get the point?
He: A Point is pointless....
Me: WHAT?
He: Arre, A point has no dimensions (ref the defn above..) so, it can not possibly contain another point. Thus, a point is pointless!!
Me: But the very fact that the point exists is proof that there IS a point.
He: True but I am not denying that fact anyway.....it does exist but it IS still pointless!!!
Me: Yup, but it still contains itself doesn't it?? So, it ain't pointless.
He: You can say that for some thing that has a dimension!! Since a point Has no dimension so it CAN NOT contain itself.......
Me: Waddaya mean?
He: A point has zero thickness. And something that has zero thickness does not exist. Hain na?
Me: Haan. But if it has no thickness, then what do we mark on paper while at geometry?
He: That is not an ideal point. A true point is pointless.
Me: And so is this conversation....
It wasn't actually. The way we were at it, i was having tons of fun. As far he is concerned, he just endures the conversations everytime.
Beta zi...you having "fun" at the expense of me enduring the conversations?? yeh achi baat nai hai!
ReplyDeleteactually... the word "point" has close to 50 meanings in the english dictionary... and some of them have dimensions :)
ReplyDeleteneways.. interesting conversation..
that's right, I agree with katty.
ReplyDeleteA Point is pointless. An ideal point quite different from what we drew in goemetry class has no dimensions. Just like an atom was smallest indivisible abolute entity until one found protons, neutrons, electrons, point is pointless. Unless of course somebody finds something smaller in side a point!