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To: editor-surveyor

Of course people calculated square roots. 2 is square root of 4. 1/2 is square root of 1/4. What one of Pythagoras’ students figured out was that ratios (which they used) were not sufficient.

The two stories we have is they either killed him by dropping him off the side of a boat, or they exiled him.


466 posted on 12/08/2013 9:20:44 PM PST by donmeaker
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To: donmeaker
“I don’t believe in Odin, either,” sneers one billboard. “Studying the bible made me an atheist,” disparages another.
 
 
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488 posted on 12/09/2013 5:13:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: donmeaker

You have a head full of cotton.

The ancients computed transcendental functions 4000 years ago or earlier.


489 posted on 12/09/2013 9:04:12 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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