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Old 24-April-2008, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by tommac View Post
...Secondly if you plot three dimensional space x y z and then you expand the distances between the points, although the relative proportions of x,y,z hold. ...
That is very hard to visualize from your words... can you draw a picture?

All I get from that is lines that are still in 3 dimensions connecting points that have moved in those 3 dimensions.

Your OP sounds like you are trying to state the rate of change of the compression. That would be a simple calculus example. But; the dimensions do not change.

If I want to get the rate of change of a curve (the slope) in 2d on a graph, I still get that rate expressed in 2 dimensions.
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