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Do planes have edges

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Edge is probably not the best word to describe it. Planes have zero thickness, and to me the word 'edge' implies something that takes up space. It's something like describing a point as a really, really, really tiny circle. That's not correct; a point has zero area-- not just a tiny bit of area.

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