Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:58:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/09/07 10:47, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >
> > Well, since we are getting all scientific, the ratio of the diameter of
> > a circle to its circumference is in fact 3, if all you have is one
> > significant digit, which it appears is all we have from the text. Now,
> > if it said "ten point zero zero cubits" and "five point zero zero
> > cubits" and "thirty point zero zero cubits" then there might be a point
> > in there.
>
> Shame on you, Roberto. You're too smart to succumb to that sort of
> reasoning in any context other than Biblical Inerrancy.
>
> BTW, the ancient Greeks used the ratio 22/7.
>
Touché.
s/ratio/quotient/
Regards,
-Roberto
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