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- From: clong@romulus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Philosophy of Pi
- Message-ID: <Dec.15.03.52.20.1992.13051@romulus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 08:52:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.155846.10861@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Dec11.200538.928@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <1992Dec11.200538.928@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>,
- Vaughan Pratt writes:
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- >>3. Would Pi have a different value in a different universe? [...]
-
- > I think the last formulation does the most justice to the spirit of
- > this question. So let's imagine a universe where circles are square.
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- For a concrete example, consider "taxicab geometry", i.e. where the
- distance between (a,b) and (c,d) is |a-c|+|b-d|.
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- Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618
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- "S.B., with an I.Q. of 161, failed to complete his course of study,
- running away instead with his professor's wife."
- H. J. Eysenck, _Know Your Own I.Q._
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