Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation

[Escape Landsome <escaaape@gmail.com>]

>> "In a mathematical sense, a circle defined parametrically in a positive
>> Cartesian
>> plane<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartesian_coordinate_system#Orientation_and_.22handedness.22>by
>> the equations
>> *x* = cos *t* and *y* = sin *t* is traced counterclockwise as *t*
>> increases
>> in value."
>>
>> That's pure math right there.

Well, that's Wikipedia maths.

In University and Ecole Normale, we are taught tensor algebra, which
clearly states that the notion of clockwise and counterclockwise is
arbitrary.   If the only thing you can oppose to me is a commonplace
cyclopedia collected by amateurs, and not the works of high-status
mathematicians, then I consider you have contributed no critique at
all.

Buy a book of high grade mathematics, and come back later.

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