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Re: Mathematical Question
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 19, 23:04 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2002 Sep 19, 23:04 -0700
"A plane that cuts the sphere divides it into two spherical segments and its surface into two spherical caps, which are equal if the section is a great circle." (from "The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics") The illustrations make it more clear: spherical segment = the solid body "chopped off" from the sphere spherical cap = the curved surface of that body
