How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?
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Tom Scola - Jan 03, 2003 2:33:29 pm PST #1186 of 9843
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
billytea - Jan 03, 2003 2:40:42 pm PST #1187 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
How can the square root of two be a ratio if it isn't a rational number?
A ratio doesn't have to be the ratio of two integers. There's no real problem with them being irrational numbers.
Karl - Jan 03, 2003 7:30:23 pm PST #1188 of 9843
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
The `golden ratio' isn't rational, either. [IIRC, it's (1+sqrt(5))/2.]
guineagal - Jan 04, 2003 7:47:16 am PST #1189 of 9843
I didn't jump to conclusions. I took a small step, and conclusions there were. -Buffy
Billytea, The Democratic Republic of Congo does have a postal service, my friend is living and working there, but it is not very good (go figure). I am a huge Buffy fan exhiled by the US government to Guinea, in West Africa. Hope to meet some worldly Buffy fans.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 04, 2003 7:49:54 am PST #1190 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
So, Unamerican but not by choice, huh?
Welcome to Buffistas, guineagal! Do you manage to get Buffy in Guinea?
Theodosia - Jan 04, 2003 8:20:30 am PST #1191 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
guineagal, I hope you weren't exiled because of your Buffy-liking! That would be daunting news to all of us! :-)
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2003 8:31:48 am PST #1192 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We so need a map of posters. This is too cool.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 04, 2003 8:34:44 am PST #1193 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I may have spent too long looking at sites which sell pretty pictures to sick on your walls. I read ita's post and wondered why we'd need to map where there where posters, and then started on a train of thought all about maybe its'd got very obssesive about Legolas posters, and she wanted to know where they all were.
And then I read it again, and went, oh! Duh.
Yeah- 'Where in the World? Buffistas' would be cool.
Angus G - Jan 04, 2003 8:42:26 am PST #1194 of 9843
Roguish Laird
I think a map was worked on, but not completed, at some point in the past.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2003 8:45:06 am PST #1195 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Min, I think. Now I'm dizzy, what with Spain, and Guinea, and Malta, and ... wow.