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jasirs94 at Mar 25, 2017 09:27 PM

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bestowed upon them, I suppose, by P. G. Tait.) Their definitions
are, in substance, as well as I remember (not having
seen the memoir for a great many years,) as follows:

The choresy (χώρησις) of any place, L, is the least number of places
in it, each of the same dimensionality* as L, such that if
each of them were is occupied by something to the exclusion of
anything else, no more room would be left, even for a point.

(Foot-note)
*Dimensionality has the value 0 for a point or points, 1 for
a line or lines, 2 for surfaces, 3 for a tridimensional spaces.

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bestowed upon them, I suppose, by P. G. Tait.) Their definitions are, in substance, as well as I remember (not having seen the memoir for a great many years,) as follows:

The choresy (χώρησις) of any place, L, is the least number of places in it, each of the same dimensionality* as L, such that if each of them were occupied by something to the exclusion of anything else, no more room would be left, even for a point.

(Foot-note)
*Dimensionality has the value 0 for a point or points, 1 for a line or lines, 2 for surfaces, 3 for tridimensional spaces.