Talk:Surface (geometry)

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Are surfaces necessarily infinite?

Is a surface only something like a plane or sphere, which has no edges, or would one face of a cube count as a surface? If a surface necessarily has no edges, isn't it misleading to say it has length and breadth? --Catherine Woodgold 20:20, 27 April 2007 (CDT)