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Re: Tonry, 8.03 Recitation

nosaj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nosaj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Nov 6 15:39:23 1992

It's something to the effect of that it is impossible to assign
a unit vector to each point on a sphere such that the vector is
tangent to the sphere and the vectors vary continuously along the
surface. (I think it's true for any surface with non-zero curvature.)

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