Euclidean Point
A bored student asks if a lesson has any point; the teacher says yes, a Euclidean point: something with no size.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-01-11-euclidean-point/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A: "Ugh. This feels useless. Does this lesson have any point whatsoever?" B: "In the Euclidean sense."
A: "Euclid saw a point as an infinitesimal, almost nothing, lacking any dimension." B: "I didn't say it had much of a point."