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Avoiding conflicts between neighboring hemispheres

To avoid this kind of conflict, we will prescribe a policy of universal appeasement. If the annulus claimed by tex2html_wrap_inline2275 overlaps that claimed by another hemisphere, we instruct tex2html_wrap_inline2275 to renounce its claim to any territory beyond the line tangent to C and perpendicular to the line joining the center of C to the center of the base of the competing hemisphere. (See Figure 13.) A similar rule applies if the annulus claimed by tex2html_wrap_inline2275 intersects tex2html_wrap_inline2367 or tex2html_wrap_inline2369 .

  
Figure 13: Universal appeasement.



Peter Doyle