DBMS_Plumber wrote:
> Well - so much for Pi!
>
And what is the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle with
other sides both 1m long?
(There is a fairly simple proof that sqrt(2) is irrational, which
reputedly caused Pythagoras/eans -- who were philosophically attached to
the integers and rationals -- such conniptions that [t]he[y] murdered
someone who "leaked" the news; see e.g.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/mysteryaleph.htm)
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 16:42:02 CDT
