It appears that bigotry spans continents. Could we please keep the focus on the math? -----Original Message----- From: math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of David Makin Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 6:06 AM To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] Redefiining Pi again Republicans should note that the opinion of many British folks of Republican views and Republican "common sense"/intelligence means that (if the source where unknown) many here would believe the article to be true. Those more enlightened are simply of the opinion that the attitude/policy of the (elite number of) (well) educated Republicans is to keep the general population as ignorant and superstitious as possible in order to maintain the disproportionately tight economic control and influence that big business has on the USA. I should add that up until about 5 years ago I paid scant attention to US politics and because the Democrats appeared to be so right-wing in UK terms that I thought the Republicans must be the left-wing US party....how wrong can you be !! (Even the Democrats appear more Conservative than the UK Tories as far as actual policies implemented is concerned) On 25 Mar 2011, at 04:49, Stephen B. Gray wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828...
This Republican legislator has an excellent idea, to simplify math by officially setting Pi=3. But she stopped short of a much better simplification, which would be to make Pi=0. That eases geometry, addition, and mutiplication. Our kids would leap to the top of international math ratings. It would also make round structures much cheaper because they would have no circumference.
If God had meant us to do math, he would already have set Pi=0.
Steve Gray
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