Message-ID: <344FAFA7.6B5B@locke.ccil.org> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:12:23 -0400 From: John Cowan Organization: Lojban Peripheral X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lojban List Subject: Re: stero References: <199710231551.KAA02556@locke.ccil.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 520 X-From-Space-Date: Thu Oct 23 16:12:23 1997 X-From-Space-Address: - la markl. cusku di'e: > What does {stero} mean? The gi'uste gives the English gloss > as "steradian". Unfortunately, neither I nor my dictionaries > know what "steradian" means. What does "steradian" mean? It is the measure of 3-dimensional angles, corresponding to "radian" as the measure of 2-dimensional angles. There are pi/2, or is it 2pi, radians in 360 degrees, but I forget how steradians are measured, and anyhow.... -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban