Re: Amore
- From: "Dennis M. Hammes" <scrawlmark@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:27:17 -0500
George Dance wrote:
On Aug 30, 12:38 pm, Barbara's Cat <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<metaphy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Barbara's Cat wrote:
<metaphy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
What constellation unknown
Granted you God's grace at birth?
Ageless like de Leda's tone;
Ev'ry dev'lish female worth.
Ally your eye,
Almiform: infinite like pi;
Subtle perfections glaze;
With awe you did amaze.
anonymous
Written by an anonymous friend to a woman in Firenze
Altered after too much Chianti and innapropriately addressed to
someone else
Third version I think is lost (To another Italian woman with a German
name)
All three have one name encrypted
Pi is not infinite, it's less than 3.1416. Honest.
Dear Cat,
if you will quibble we will explain.
Pi is irrational.
Yes, pi is an irrational number. No argument there.
However, pi is not infinite, it's less than 3.1416.
Of course pi is an infinite decimal. You simply didn't understand the
reference.
OOOooo, the illiterate maroons circle, tongue to tailgate, yet again.
Pi is /not/ an "infinite" decimal.
Pi is an "infinitely nonrepeating" decimal, i.e., indefinitely iterable without recursion.
Which is funny as hell, because "pi" is /not/ "3.14159262..." but "c/d," which is defined as a rational number.
What's even funnier is that only the lemma pi = lim. c/d, d --> 0, is irrational.
So -- which is the /given/ irrational number, the diameter or the circumference?
Or is it the concept of division by zero that's irrational?
Or -- what is the circumference of a point?
An "infinitely repeating" decimal would be a rational number, e.g., 1/3, or "0.3333..."
It would be RUDE to call a woman irrational.
Truth can sometimes be rude; still, truth is truth.
On that note: you're not merely a kook, but an incredibly stupid
kook.
Only an incredibly stupid kook would mistake the reflection in his screen for another monkey, yes.
A thin coat of matte spray lacquer will do wonders for that.
hth...
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I do not "negotiate" for half my baby back, Solomon.
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