On 01/14/2011 05:04 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: > A demolishing criticism > <http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2010/11/16/grandiose-crackpottery-proves-pi4/> > of Miles Mathis, particularly on his paper about Pi being 4 > <http://milesmathis.com/pi.html> (among many other things, Miles shows > that Pi equals four, with an elegant(and wrong) "proof", which > basically boils down to this > <http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbxrvcK4pk1qbylvso1_400.png>)
Nice, and that last link's a very cute proof, and nice illustration of what arc-length /doesn't/ mean, as well as being an example of an unexpected encounter with a fractal. Here's another, vaguely related "one-page-puzzle" (uses the same goofy grinning head, otherwise unrelated): http://i.imgur.com/IKFiu.jpg It's so totally crude, so silly, and yet ... so hard to see why it won't work...
