From: robert bristow-johnson on 10 Feb 2010 18:29 On Feb 10, 8:39 am, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote: > > According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. Various legislators > at various times introduced ordinances to set the value of pi at some > convenient rational fraction. No ordinance can affect the value of a > physical constant. Jerry, pi is a mathematical constant. i wouldn't call it a physical constant, in the sense of the fine-structure constant or the proton- electron mass ratio or any of the other 26 or so dimensionless fundamental physical constants. > Pi remains [approx] 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... > despite their efforts. i dunno. them Republicans are challenging a lot of reality. maybe someday they'll win. r b-j
From: Randy Yates on 10 Feb 2010 19:39 Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes: > [...] > According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. Where is that? -- Randy Yates % "My Shangri-la has gone away, fading like Digital Signal Labs % the Beatles on 'Hey Jude'" mailto://yates(a)ieee.org % http://www.digitalsignallabs.com % 'Shangri-La', *A New World Record*, ELO
From: Jerry Avins on 10 Feb 2010 21:40 robert bristow-johnson wrote: > On Feb 10, 8:39 am, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. Various legislators >> at various times introduced ordinances to set the value of pi at some >> convenient rational fraction. No ordinance can affect the value of a >> physical constant. > > Jerry, pi is a mathematical constant. Right. My bad. > i wouldn't call it a physical > constant, in the sense of the fine-structure constant or the proton- > electron mass ratio or any of the other 26 or so dimensionless > fundamental physical constants. > >> Pi remains [approx] 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... >> despite their efforts. > > i dunno. them Republicans are challenging a lot of reality. maybe > someday they'll win. Bob, you're real good at making up horror stories. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
From: Jerry Avins on 10 Feb 2010 21:46 Randy Yates wrote: > Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes: >> [...] >> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. > > Where is that? In the old testament, a the descriptions of a vessel in the Temple. look look look ... 1 Kings 4:23. "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and its height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. �����������������������������������������������������������������������
From: Tim Wescott on 10 Feb 2010 23:58
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:46:32 -0500, Jerry Avins wrote: > Randy Yates wrote: >> Jerry Avins <jya(a)ieee.org> writes: >>> [...] >>> According to one passage in the Bible, pi is three. >> >> Where is that? > > In the old testament, a the descriptions of a vessel in the Temple. > > look look look ... > > 1 Kings 4:23. "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to > the other: it was round all about, and its height was five cubits: and a > line of thirty cubits did compass it round about." > > Jerry Clearly written by a fuzzy studies major. -- www.wescottdesign.com |