¶ Point-to-able Something
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A point-to-able something may be much too small to be optically resolved into its constituent polyhedral characteristics, yet be unitarily differentiated as a black speck against a white background. Because a speck existed yet defied their discernment of any feature, mathematicians of the premicroscope era mistakenly assumed a speck to be self-evidently unitary, indivisible, and geometrically employable as a nondimensional ‘point.’
