OT: was Re: Which one is good coding style?

[Andrew Cannon]

Keith R. Williams wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:47:47, Andrew Cannon <a...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > K.Orthner wrote:
> >
> > > > You're welcome. I learnt something today too: nobody seems able to
> > > > explain me why left and right are inverted in a mirror but not top
> > > > and bottom ;-)
> > >
> > > You're eyes are on the left and right sides of your face. If they were,
> > > say, in the top and bottom of your face, then a mirror would invert top &
> > > bottom!
> > >
> > > (Aren't I full of answers today!)
> >
> >
> > So what does a person with one eye see in a mirror?
>
> I've always been told that a mirror inverts front to back.
> That's kept my interest in such mirror-aculous things happy.
>

Well that's right...

The fact is that in order to see yourself in the face you would have to
turn around and look in the other direction, and the usual way of doing
that is to turn in the horizontal plane, which swaps left and right.

The mirror just helps you to do that.

If you stood on your head to look in the other direction then top and
bottom would be inverted instead;-)

...Andrew

> ----
> Keith

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In article <39855D80...@gmx.net>,

Andrew Cannon <a...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Keith R. Williams wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:47:47, Andrew Cannon <a...@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > K.Orthner wrote:
> > >
> > > > > You're welcome. I learnt something today too: nobody seems
able to
> > > > > explain me why left and right are inverted in a mirror but not
top
> > > > > and bottom ;-)
> > > >

If your mirror happens to have a hinge such that you can
arrange the mirrors like this:
/\
/ \
/ \

()()
you can get really confused trying to comb your hair!

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