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tealinThis morning, an inspiration particle actually managed to penetrate the thick shell surrounding my brain, and I feel I may single-handedly advance mathematics by what I am about to reveal:
13.14159... = piteen.
This can be extrapolated into 23.14159... (twenty-pi) 314.159... (pi hundred) and so on.
I do hope no one is taking me seriously.
12:54 pm
Thank you, Mr. Pratchett, for making a trip to the post office less of a bothersome errand and more of a humourous experience. Heehee, stamps. Heehee, a big box for employing people. Heehee, walking away with a pen.
I returned the pen. In case you were wondering.
13.14159... = piteen.
This can be extrapolated into 23.14159... (twenty-pi) 314.159... (pi hundred) and so on.
I do hope no one is taking me seriously.
12:54 pm
Thank you, Mr. Pratchett, for making a trip to the post office less of a bothersome errand and more of a humourous experience. Heehee, stamps. Heehee, a big box for employing people. Heehee, walking away with a pen.
I returned the pen. In case you were wondering.
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Except in Manila
Date: 2005-04-07 05:47 pm (UTC)BTW, in Manila, the Cardinal in the Catholic Church there, his name is Jamie Sin. That makes him Cardinal Sin. You can look it up.
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Date: 2005-04-08 02:12 am (UTC)Darn. Now how am I supposed to now whether to trust mathematicians or not? (Please note that that was a joke. Happy April Fools, anyone?)
I would be dissapointed if my favorite fan artist forgot to return the pen. Ah, good memories, good memories.
'Ello!
Date: 2005-04-08 07:10 am (UTC)Rock on with the drawings! I love your Pratchett stuff, and any time you mention Aubrey, Maturin, and Patrick O'Brien.
Later,
'Nella
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Date: 2005-04-08 09:20 pm (UTC)Although isn't twenty-pi sort of legitimate? Like saying the circle has an area of 20(pi symbol).
And Pratchett has opened my eyes in the case of everything. Like I will never see Lord of the Rings in the same mindset again, nor look at a tortoise the same way again. Grand stuff! :D
(Re the pen returning: Miss Maccalariat approves!)
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Date: 2005-04-09 06:59 am (UTC)Excuse me a moment, I need to untie my brain from its pretzel.
In thikning about this all the other day, I thought... what if people just decided to make pi into a digit between three and four? So that mathematics, in essence, had a base-11 counting system instead of base-10? To count 1, 2, 3, pi, 4... Would it be like saying C# was now a proper note in its own right so the scale would go A, B, C, C#, D...? Would anyone actually use it? Would it mess up everything? Would the universe collapse? (and of course, from that... would we be able to tell?) Is this all Bloody Stupid?
1,2, 3, pi, 4
Date: 2005-04-10 05:41 pm (UTC)Or maybe he'd make an oven that actually calculates pi digits...
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Date: 2005-04-13 08:56 pm (UTC). . . you know, I never even think that far. Okay, I know pi is, um, the standard measurement sort of thing for a circle? And if you did go 1, 2, 3, pi, 4, wouldn't that completely unbalance the rest of the numbers? Because you'd advance one until pi, when you'd advance, like, 8 point something. Where would, um, say, pi-teen go? Between thirteen and fourteen or not at all? Would pi be the last pi in the number scale? *can't think logically, not really*
I once read this interesting article (at least, I think it was an article) about how if we'd evolved with eleven fingers, would our system of measurement (especially the metric) be different? And then our entire currency would change, and probably new maths would be invented and . . .
Man, my head is spinning. xD;
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