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May 12, 2024, 5:27 pm UTC    
June 26, 2007 11:11AM
Having followed the the various threads on pi, on this board and previously on Guardians and then reading Piazzi Smyth's book on math and the pyramids. All I can say is nobody has been able to prove one way or the other that the AE's knew about pi or were concerned with it. On the other hand nobody has been able to prove that they didn't know about pi. The record is absolutely silent on both points.

But we can fast forward to various societies that did find pi and see what if anything they did with it. To start with the Greeks were the kings of geometry. Pick up any high school text book and you'll see pi running through every equation. Now you would assume that pi was important to the greeks then since logically, every text book is the latest revision of Euclid's "elements". So go pick up a copy of Euclids "elements" and see how many time he uses 'pi'. I'll save you the trouble. He doesn't use pi at all. Not once. Archimedes is credited with developing a proto-calculus, and pi pops up all the time in calculus. And lo and behold he did find an approximate value of pi. And proceeded to do nothing with it. I could continue on, with the same conclusion. Not until around the 18th, 19th, and 20th AFAICS did mathematics become obsessed with pi. And only then was pi retroactively appplied to the pyramids. Since then the battle has been on and it appears it will continue until the pyramids vanish.
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My first last and only thoughts on the matter of pi.

Rick Baudé June 26, 2007 11:11AM

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Don Barone June 26, 2007 11:35AM

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Dave L June 26, 2007 12:20PM

Silence of the record

Anthony June 26, 2007 12:39PM

Re: Silence of the record

Dave L June 26, 2007 12:52PM

Dead wrong

Anthony June 26, 2007 01:16PM

Re: Silence of the record

MJ Thomas June 26, 2007 01:05PM

Not so silent

Graham Chase June 27, 2007 11:24AM

Re: Not so silent

Anthony June 27, 2007 11:29AM

Why I ask...

Anthony June 27, 2007 11:40AM

Re: Why I ask...

Don Barone June 27, 2007 05:06PM

Re: Why I ask...

Anthony June 27, 2007 05:49PM

Re: Not so silent

Graham Chase June 27, 2007 12:50PM

Re: Not so silent

Greg Reeder June 27, 2007 12:16PM

Re: Not so silent

Anthony June 27, 2007 01:45PM

Re: Not so silent

Graham Chase June 27, 2007 02:31PM

Fudging numbers

Anthony June 27, 2007 02:38PM

Re: Fudging numbers

Graham Chase June 27, 2007 04:05PM

Re: Not so silent

Greg Reeder June 27, 2007 02:51PM

Re: Not so silent

Graham Chase June 27, 2007 04:36PM

nt

Morph June 27, 2007 02:45PM

Squaring the circle...

Morph June 27, 2007 02:51PM

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Clive June 26, 2007 01:05PM

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creigs1707 June 26, 2007 01:22PM

Moderation Note

Katherine Reece June 26, 2007 01:31PM

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Khazar-khum June 26, 2007 02:10PM

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creigs1707 June 26, 2007 03:12PM

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Don Barone June 26, 2007 03:15PM

Oh dear...

Morph June 26, 2007 03:55PM

Re: Oh dear...

Don Barone June 26, 2007 04:04PM

Re: Oh dear...

Morph June 26, 2007 05:25PM

Old Pi

creigs1707 June 26, 2007 05:33PM

Re: Old Pi

Morph June 26, 2007 05:43PM

No Pi

Anthony June 26, 2007 07:20PM

Re: No Pi

Morph June 27, 2007 05:06AM

OT

Lee June 27, 2007 08:46AM

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Anthony June 27, 2007 08:52AM

Re: OT

Morph June 27, 2007 09:03AM

Re: OT

creigs1707 June 27, 2007 09:14AM

Re: OT

Jammer July 06, 2007 01:49PM

Request ...

Hermione July 06, 2007 02:17PM

Re: Old Pi

lobo-hotei June 28, 2007 01:54PM

Now the Facts.

Dave L June 26, 2007 07:48PM

Correct... but pointless

Anthony June 26, 2007 08:49PM

Interesting facts...

Morph June 27, 2007 04:52AM

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Clive June 26, 2007 03:56PM

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Ronald June 27, 2007 02:00AM

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MJ Thomas June 27, 2007 02:14AM

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Ronald June 27, 2007 07:37AM

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Don Barone June 27, 2007 09:37AM

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Anthony June 27, 2007 09:56AM

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Don Barone June 27, 2007 10:17AM

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creigs1707 June 27, 2007 10:32AM

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Ronald June 27, 2007 05:47PM

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Anthony June 27, 2007 05:50PM

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creigs1707 June 27, 2007 06:19PM

Ockam says...

Anthony June 28, 2007 08:58AM

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cladking June 27, 2007 10:54AM

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Jammer July 06, 2007 01:54PM



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