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Letter: Look at it this way

Published 3 March 2001

From Syd Curtis

Dean Ware makes the point that a piece of paper, being made of atoms, has
depth and is in fact a cuboid, topologically equivalent to a solid sphere. Thus,
it has only one side
(10 February, p 57). That side, however, may more logically
be considered a surface.

If we stick with sides, then semantically the piece of paper has eight sides:
outside (the surface), inside, left, right, top, bottom, front and back
sides.

Hawthorne, Queensland

Issue no. 2280 published 3 March 2001

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