On 3/13/07, Mohsen Ravanbakhsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *Not necessarily. If you draw a diagonal on a square on a computer screen, > it will be made up of a discrete number of pixels despite what Pythagoras' > theorem calculates. Irrational in the real world may just be an illusion. > * > I was trying to mark a distance in real world which is irrational > according to a rational unit(Width of pixels), and for such diagonal the > distance is an irrational number, although it might be made up of rational > numbers of another irrational unit (diagonal pixels) > I mean there's some irrational distance out there! > How can you be sure? Maybe space is discrete. Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
