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> if you exclude the parallel postulate but use all of the other axioms from Euclid you get hyperbolic geometry

No, you don't.

(You need to replace the parallel postulate with a different one)

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Thank you for the correction I actually didn't realise that so have learned something.

Specifically for people who are interested it seems you have to replace the parallel postulate with a postulate that says every point is a saddle point (which is like the centre point of a pringle if you know what that looks like).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles


You can also replace it with a different postulate and get projective geometry, IIRC.



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