From: Eldad Tsabary (tazberry_docs@yahoo.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 21 2011 - 23:08:57 EDT
lol
Too bad! I would have loved a new rounded version of pie (3). It would
have resonated well with the trinity, while also being exactly twice the
rounded version of the golden mean (1.5)
It could have made the world a much better place... a simple place
Why do "they" always have to complicate things?
E
On 3/21/2011 10:56 PM, Rick wrote:
> launch
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Rick<ricknance@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Belay that last lunch. It looks like it was an Onion story or
>> something that made it through to the regular press. still...
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Rick<ricknance@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This just in from my home state: (via the Huffington Post)
>>>
>>> Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is sponsoring HR 205, The Geometric
>>> Simplification Act, declaring the Euclidean mathematical constant of
>>> pi to be precisely 3. The bill comes in response to data and rankings
>>> from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
>>> rating the United States' 15 year-olds 25th in the world in
>>> mathematics.
>>>
>>> OECD is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011, and the Paris-based
>>> NGO released its international educational rankings, placing the US in
>>> a three-way tie for math, equaling Portugal and Ireland, just beneath
>>> No. 24 Luxembourg.
>>>
>>> "That long-held empirical value of pi, I am not saying it should be
>>> necessarily viewed as wrong, but 3 is a lot better," said Roby, the
>>> 34-year old legislator representing Alabama's second congressional
>>> district, ushered into office in the historic 2010 Republican mid-term
>>> bonanza.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Dr. Richard Nance
>> Birmingham Southern College
>> Department of Music
>> Metropolitan Youth Orchestras<MyOrch.org>
>> www.PlasticMusic.Net
>>
>
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