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On 05/09/07 17:15, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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/

No, ratio.

- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
[gcide]:

  Ratio \Ra"ti*o\ (r[=a]"sh[i^]*[-o] or r[=a]"sh[-o]), n. [L., fr.
     reri, ratus, to reckon, believe, think, judge. See {Reason}.]
     1. (Math.) The relation which one quantity or magnitude has
        to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the
        quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus,
        the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed by 3/6 or 1/2; of a to b
        by a/b; or (less commonly) the second term is made the
        dividend; as, a:b = b/a.
        [1913 Webster]

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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