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

Jason Dorje Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Bob Koca wrote:
> > Rule IX A  The entire playing field is in-bounds. The perimeter lines
> > are not part of the playing field and are out-of-bounds.
> > 
> > Rule Viii 8  If the pull is caught, the disc is put into play at the
> > spot on the playing field closest to where the disc is caught.
> > 
> > 
> >   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.
> 
> How do you know it's not the line that's the open set, leaving the 
> playing field as a closed set?
> 
> jason

Well, you're obviously just an uneducated disc player, not anythink
like such an exquisite creater as a REAL PHD mathematician!

(PS do please go review your remedial undergratuate topology and
PLEASE! quit posting your drivel on this learned board -- disc players
are just not worthy of it.)