Re: nonsensical rule about pivot and in and out of bounds (warning: math geek post)

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Bob Koca wrote:

>   The problem is that there is no spot on the playing field closest to
> where the disc was caught. Since the lines are not part of the playing
> field the playing field itself is an open set (in the topological
> sense). It would be like trying to find the closest real number to 2
> that is less than 2. Any proposed answer could be improved.

Just because a number isn't a real number, doesn't mean that it's not a
number.