Comments on: Prehistoric Calculus: Discovering Pi

By: Shankar

Shankar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:19:09 +0000

And one more thing………

How can we be sure that pi is an irrational number.??.

Maybe after the 100 billionth number after the decimal point, it may repeat itself, thus making it a rational number……….

By: Shankar

Shankar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:52:37 +0000

Hi Kalid…….What i meant was that a road seems perfectly straight to us……..however its just a part of a large circle called earth……

So if we keep on extending a straight line on both sides infinitely, will we get a large circle ????

By: Kalid

Kalid — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:41:59 +0000

@Shankar: Glad you liked it! Hrm, I’m not sure what you mean — i.e., is a circle made up of straight line segments? A perfect circle seems never has two points on a perfect line (i.e. if you rotate the circle only one of the points will be “rightmost”, you can’t have both vertically above each other) but reality is quite different .