Units and Scaling in Geometry

Explanations 2

• What's the "unit length"? Alternatively, what does it mean for something to have "length 111"? Is the unit length an inch? a kilometer? How do we decide? Your science/physics te…

  By Victor Wang, Moor Xu

• Euclid's system did not give a high profile to actual numbers. For instance, Euclid's statement of the Pythagorean theorem ultimately amounts to the assertion that the square dr…

  By Kevin Dong