[math-fun] Redefiining Pi again
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828... This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference. If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0. Steve Gray
Good thing we have the Tau Manifesto, right? :( http://tauday.com/ On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Stephen B. Gray <stevebg@roadrunner.com> wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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Republicans should note that the opinion of many British folks of Republican views and Republican "common sense"/intelligence means that (if the source where unknown) many here would believe the article to be true. Those more enlightened are simply of the opinion that the attitude/policy of the (elite number of) (well) educated Republicans is to keep the general population as ignorant and superstitious as possible in order to maintain the disproportionately tight economic control and influence that big business has on the USA. I should add that up until about 5 years ago I paid scant attention to US politics and because the Democrats appeared to be so right-wing in UK terms that I thought the Republicans must be the left-wing US party....how wrong can you be !! (Even the Democrats appear more Conservative than the UK Tories as far as actual policies implemented is concerned) On 25 Mar 2011, at 04:49, Stephen B. Gray wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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It appears that bigotry spans continents. Could we please keep the focus on the math? -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of David Makin Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:06 AM To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] Redefiining Pi again Republicans should note that the opinion of many British folks of Republican views and Republican "common sense"/intelligence means that (if the source where unknown) many here would believe the article to be true. Those more enlightened are simply of the opinion that the attitude/policy of the (elite number of) (well) educated Republicans is to keep the general population as ignorant and superstitious as possible in order to maintain the disproportionately tight economic control and influence that big business has on the USA. I should add that up until about 5 years ago I paid scant attention to US politics and because the Democrats appeared to be so right-wing in UK terms that I thought the Republicans must be the left-wing US party....how wrong can you be !! (Even the Democrats appear more Conservative than the UK Tories as far as actual policies implemented is concerned) On 25 Mar 2011, at 04:49, Stephen B. Gray wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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I wouldn't normally have continued on this subject but object in strong terms on being labelled a "bigot", to have particular opinions in itself is not bigotry, expressing one's opinions is not bigotry (at least not where free speech is allowed), believing that opinions that you do not share should not be allowed *is* bigotry but that is not what I believe. Bigotry: "stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own." I believe that the only things that should not be tolerated (bar the obvious like murder, rape burglary etc) are organisations that enforce intolerance on their members and more especially that also try to impose their will on others (I mean by means other than simple communication). My point of making my other post on the issue was to try and enlighten, not to be inflammatory and had I not been so astonished and incredulous to discover that the Republicans are actually right of the Democrats then I would not have posted in the first place.
It appears that bigotry spans continents. Could we please keep the focus on the math?
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of David Makin Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:06 AM To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] Redefiining Pi again
Republicans should note that the opinion of many British folks of Republican views and Republican "common sense"/intelligence means that (if the source where unknown) many here would believe the article to be true. Those more enlightened are simply of the opinion that the attitude/policy of the (elite number of) (well) educated Republicans is to keep the general population as ignorant and superstitious as possible in order to maintain the disproportionately tight economic control and influence that big business has on the USA.
I should add that up until about 5 years ago I paid scant attention to US politics and because the Democrats appeared to be so right-wing in UK terms that I thought the Republicans must be the left-wing US party....how wrong can you be !! (Even the Democrats appear more Conservative than the UK Tories as far as actual policies implemented is concerned)
On 25 Mar 2011, at 04:49, Stephen B. Gray wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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These legislators would get a lot more support from the academic community if they voted to make the Extended Riemann Hypothesis into law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Riemann_hypothesis They could also make U.S. industry competitive again by enshrining P=NP into law, but only within U.S. borders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem At 09:49 PM 3/24/2011, Stephen B. Gray wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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