On Saturday 28 January 2006 16:35, Philip S Hall wrote: > I'd like to offer an incite into why it is that pi (and other numbers like > root 2) can be irrational even though they feature in real world > measurement.
I've been reading Wildberger's geometry book, in which he says that nature gives numbers in square root form. So if the length of something is sqrt(2), its quadrance is 2, which is rational. My quadrance is 2.28 m^2. Divide 82 kg (I lost 2, probably by biking to church) by that and you get 36. As to pi, we can argue with Brij until we all have pi on our face! phma
