Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Cyprus SBA & Green Line Photos
Date: Oct 19, 2003 @ 22:51
Author: Anton Sherwood (Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>)
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Anton:
>> Curiously, the sign says "DHEKELIA SBA AREA",
>> i.e. `Sovereign Base Area Area'

Jesper Nielsen wrote:
> Must be the area of the SB area.
> Can't an area have an area?

Sure, but the sign marks the perimeter, which has zero area;
unless of course the Area is considered as a volume.

I can certainly imagine a sign that announces the area of the Area, just
as signs at city limits in America typically announce the population;
but alas the sign in question does not.

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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/