Angle, Side, Angle [Archive]

Dantes

Mar8-04, 05:31 AM

I have been hearing a lot of talk around my campus at UTA about irrational numbers proving the rationality if you will about God. PI, Phi, episilon etc.

Anyone know any references or sites that I can check out to learn more.

Would love to hear everyone elses opinion to.

BTW: This post was originally a mistake so I edited it with a valid question that I was going to ask.

BTW2: This probably belongs in Philosophy

Jug

Mar8-04, 06:00 PM

IMO any irrational number, such as Pi, is but abstractly derived and can be expressed as a rational number....but there has been some arguement over that.

Hurkyl

Mar8-04, 10:11 PM

BTW2: This probably belongs in Philosophy

As you wish! *whoosh*

BTW, you might want to edit the title to be something more descriptive.

Janitor

Mar8-04, 10:14 PM

Bunkum.

[:)]

Tom Mattson

Mar11-04, 10:36 AM

Originally posted by Jug
IMO any irrational number, such as Pi, is but abstractly derived and can be expressed as a rational number

"Rational" and "Irrational" are mutually exclusive. What you are claiming is that "X AND ~X" is true, and it is not.

....but there has been some arguement over that.

Not in any journal I have heard of. [8)]

selfAdjoint

Mar11-04, 11:09 AM

Originally posted by Jug
IMO any irrational number, such as Pi, is but abstractly derived and can be expressed as a rational number....but there has been some arguement over that.

There are explicit proofs posted online to show that pi can NOT be expressed as a rational number. Google pi irrational. And in MY humble opinion, everyone who wants to talk about this subject should first memorize the classic proof that \sqrt {2} cannot be equal to a rational number p/q in lowest terms.