Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL

[olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>
> > However, Option 1 was the consensus of this list, and thus we've been
> > overridden[0]. I feel that we now need to figure out why the project as
> > a whole has rejected the draft position statement [2]
>
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> [   ] Choice 1: pi = 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820
> [   ] Choice 2: pi = 3.14
> [   ] Choice 3: pi = 3 [needs legislature of Indiana approval]
> [   ] Choice 4: further discussion
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> Attempts to legislate pi are always questionable, and when you ask a
> majority of uninformed voters[3] to choose between items, it's natural
> for the compromise to win, and not unheard of for it to end up "3".

You have also to admit that being informed does not necessarily means 
sharing your opinion?

By the way are you aware that for pi none of your proposal is true 
(exept maybe Choice 4 which is unclear). pi is transcendental, and in 
particular irrational (which implies that you cannot write it with a 
final number of decimal). Your choice 1 (that you maybe thought was 
correct) is as wrong as choice 3.

Olive