5 November 2004. I had nothing to say here so tried to find something of mine to post. I chose my "Mathemaku Versus Mondrian" only to find I'd used it in a previous entry (as I thought I had but hoped I hadn't. In discussing it this time around, I mentioned another of my coinages. For want of anything else to write, I'll make that the subject of this entry.

The coinage is "circloid." I came up with that long ago to represent filled-in circles as opposed to the circumferences of circles ordinarily considered circles). Anyone know of a proper term for a filled-in circle? Maybe I'm the only one in the world who feels the need for such a word, but I've been annoyed by its absence many more times than once.

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