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"Borgholio" <borgholio at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:boeb9h$ceb$1 at news.spamcop.net... > Actually Mike started it. :) Oh. Sorry. Bad Mike! I'm a gonna sic Charles on you! I see what you mean about an ellipsoid, but > that still implies a 2d shape...even if it's irregular. The "soid" suffix implies 3-D.