On Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 6:54:39 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote: > Yet we remain cocksure of our assumtions inspite of the repeated data > that everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
Let’s see, 500 years ago, people knew * That the world is round, and how to measure its radius to within a third of a percent of the modern value * That the square root of 2 cannot be represented as an exact ratio of two integers * That objects float in water because their density is lower than that of water * That the optimum shape for a load-bearing arch is a catenary * That blood in the human body has to take the long way round--through the lungs--to get from one side of the heart to the other * That Roman numerals are a stupid way to do calculations. Have any of these been disproved yet? I’m not up with all these “there is no objective reality, everything is relative” ideas as yet... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
