Re: virus: maxims and ground rules and suppositions

Eric Boyd (6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca)
Thu, 13 May 1999 20:11:38 -0400

Hi,

Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu> writes:

<<
Once a circle, always a circle.... Some things are there without force upon
them, and those things are true. That may sound Platonic, but it ain't.
>>

Of course, in the *real* world, there arn't any *real* circles; only shapes which approximate them. A circle, in it's essence, is Platonic -- and that is why Pi is trancendental, rather than, say, an integer, or even a rational...

ERiC