Talk:Dilation (metric space)

The article is contradictory as it stands. According to the definition on the page, a translation is a dilation. A translation does not have a fixed point, however.

Readability
The article is not comprehensible to the non-expert. Compare with. —DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 00:05, 29 January 2009 (UTC))

Possible Duplication
Is this the same as Scaling (geometry)? Should the articles be merged? Rojomoke (talk) 15:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)


 * No, for two reasons:
 * The transformations described in the scaling algorithm don't allow for rotations; the ones here do, and
 * This is about general metric spaces, not just Euclidean spaces.
 * —David Eppstein (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)