[PD] GEM units

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Mar 3 10:52:19 CET 2010


Hallo,
ydegoyon at gmail.com hat gesagt: // ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:

> i frankly never understood it,
> why a gem is not [0..1]x[0..1],
> a big mystery to me...
>
> does it have to do with cabalistic practices?
> the [-4.4...4.4]x[-2...2] or is it?

I suppose it is influenced by the égalité idea of French revolution that no
single direction should get a higher status than other directions. Everything
is equal at the origin, then grows in all directions equally unless external
influences change that.

Ciao
-- 
Frank




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