From phma@webjockey.net Sun Jul 14 18:56:31 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 15 Jul 2002 01:56:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 367 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2002 01:56:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Jul 2002 01:56:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jul 2002 01:56:31 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id DF9FB3C477; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:56:30 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: involute Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 21:56:29 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] X-Spamtrap: fesmri@ixazon.dynip.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02071421562908.03076@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 What is the Lojban for involute? The word means "the curve traced by unwinding"; e.g. if you wind a string around a circle, then unwind it holding it taut, the curve the end traces is the involute of the circle. phma