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To: donmeaker

You demonstrate that you have no grip on our number system, nor on the history of numeric computation.

Pi has been known since before the recorded history of mathematics. The use of the ratio 22/7 was for simplification of construction layout, and nothing more. The circumference of Solomon’s laver given in the early scrolls was 31 cubits and 5 ‘inches’ or 12ths. This value gave a value of Pi very close to the same 22/7 number that has been in use for construction purposes for about 4500 years.

The KJV Bible never defined Pi.


528 posted on 12/09/2013 2:06:49 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

You demonstrate that you don’t know much about the history of math. your comments are exactly wrong.

Until the discovery of irrational numbers, it was thought and religiously held that integers were enough, and that ratios of integers provided all the numbers that were needed. Eventually negative numbers were invented, effectively doubling the number system. Then imaginary number increased the available numbers again. Cantor drove himself mad considering the difference between countable and uncountable infinities.

Irrational numbers were discovered later. I recommend A Brief History of Mathematics by Ball.


529 posted on 12/09/2013 2:39:10 PM PST by donmeaker
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