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recallone · 04-11-2009, 05:22 PM

Burgundia was just inserting some needed humor, 777. It was actually kind of a relief to see that I'm not the only one not completely wrapping my head around this. One thing that's got me scratching my head is that I've seen a few different values assigned to pi from your posts here, without any explanation as to how it was arrived at - so the confusion, IMHO is warranted.

If you're just getting it, without the benefit of having it explained to you - then I'm totally stoked for you. But for those of us who aren't intuiting the understanding of it, I was hoping you might be able to either expound on the conclusions or point some of us in a direction that offers a more complete explanation. I'm okay with saying 'I don't know', which I hope is common amongst members here. It's when that statement is met with ridicule or condescension that I get frustrated, as I'm sure others do as well. I don't want to write this off as a case of the emperors clothes, I just need some more dots to fully connect this particular picture.

Thanks.

04-11-2009, 05:22 PM	#22
recallone Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Southern California Posts: 289	Re: V8 Burgundia was just inserting some needed humor, 777. It was actually kind of a relief to see that I'm not the only one not completely wrapping my head around this. One thing that's got me scratching my head is that I've seen a few different values assigned to pi from your posts here, without any explanation as to how it was arrived at - so the confusion, IMHO is warranted. If you're just getting it, without the benefit of having it explained to you - then I'm totally stoked for you. But for those of us who aren't intuiting the understanding of it, I was hoping you might be able to either expound on the conclusions or point some of us in a direction that offers a more complete explanation. I'm okay with saying 'I don't know', which I hope is common amongst members here. It's when that statement is met with ridicule or condescension that I get frustrated, as I'm sure others do as well. I don't want to write this off as a case of the emperors clothes, I just need some more dots to fully connect this particular picture. Thanks.