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<p>as a negative sector area.</p>

<p><big> Postnikov equivalence </big></p>
<p><a href="page.php?w=Mikhail_Postnikov">Mikhail Postnikov</a>'s 1979 textbook Lectures in Geometry appeals to certain <a href="page.php?w=geometric_transformation">geometric transformation</a>s - described as functions of coordinate pairs  - to express "freely floating area elements".  A <a href="page.php?w=shear_mapping">shear mapping</a> is either of:</p>

<p>for any real number , while a <a href="page.php?w=squeeze_mapping">squeeze mapping</a> is</p>

<p>for any positive real</p><p>
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