Blathering nonsense! Because something can't be represented exactly, it doesn't or can't exist? For this fellow, knowledge of pi to beyond what is sufficient accuracy to send landers to Mars is insufficient to conclude it exists and is natural! Talk about silly!
Regards, Bob.... -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!" - Benjamin Franklin From: "Raimo Korhonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK - if pi can really be found in the nature, it would have been found a couple of thousands of years ago. Now we have only approximations. Silly, isn�t it? > All the best! > Raimo > Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho > > -----Alkuper�inen viesti----- > L�hett�j�: Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Vastaanottaja: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > P�iv�: 29. joulukuuta 2002 22:35 > Aihe: Re: Numbers and the Golden Section > > > >I don't know why folks are so caustic these days. > >I don't know I'm so caustic these days. > > > >Perhaps I'm just thick and don't get it, but to me constants such as pi, > >universal gravitational constant, charge of an electron numbers of things > >and their combined effects the laws of thermodynamics existed since the dawn > >of time. Four electrons aggregated together produced four times the charge > >of a single electron (not five or three) before there was an earth, let > >alone a man or a language to describe this mathematics. Saying that values > >or things or concepts or relationships don't exist merely because they can > >be conveniently described mathematically seems to me ... silly. > > > >Regards, > >Bob.... > > >
