Raimo Korhonen wrote: > > OK - if pi can really be found in the nature, it would have been > found a couple of thousands of years ago. Now we have only > approximations. Silly, isn´t it? Excuse me? What _ever_ are you talking about? "Pi" is the mathematical expression for the ratio between a circle's diameter and it's circumference. It "just IS." No more strange than a circle's radius is exactly 1/2 half the diameter. It can be found wherever a circle is found ~ whether in nature or not. "Nature" has nothing to do with it! What do you mean, we only have approximations? These comments make no sense at all.
This discussion is way off track. keith whaley > All the best! > Raimo > Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho > > -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- > Lähettäjä: Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Päivä: 29. joulukuuta 2002 22:35 > Aihe: Re: Numbers and the Golden Section > > >I don't know why folks are so caustic these days. > >I don't know I'm so caustic these days. > > > >Perhaps I'm just thick and don't get it, but to me constants such as pi, > >universal gravitational constant, charge of an electron numbers of things > >and their combined effects the laws of thermodynamics existed since the dawn > >of time. Four electrons aggregated together produced four times the charge > >of a single electron (not five or three) before there was an earth, let > >alone a man or a language to describe this mathematics. Saying that values > >or things or concepts or relationships don't exist merely because they can > >be conveniently described mathematically seems to me ... silly. > > > >Regards, > >Bob....
