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To: Alamo-Girl
Indeed, why is pi what it is and not something else?

Because Pi is a defined constant, not a contingent quantity.

183 posted on 06/17/2003 8:15:36 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Thank you for your post!

Indeed pi is a constant.

The Aristotle-Hawking side of the forum goes "yawn" - and dumps it into the anthropic principle with all the other mysterious constants, 'nuff said.

Meanwhile, the Plato-Penrose side of the forum wonder at the geometry. The mathematicians discovered circles - and their properties, they say, they sure didn't invent them. They were already there. But why? And why is it universal, the same everywhere?

185 posted on 06/17/2003 8:29:23 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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