Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00100)

Sunday, March 6, 2005, 11:43:14 AM, leonmaurer wrote:

> I was referring to a specific "path"...

Aha... Then OK. And I was talking about "distance". :-) But anyway,
originally "length" is measurable only along a straight line, as long
as it means "distance". And if you bind yourself to a "path", then
you'll have to approximate the path's length to a sequence of however
small straight pieces, whose lengths are measurable directly.

I guess that's why Pi is not a "rational" number -- it is not a ratio,
it is an approximation of such, however close to its aim.


Best regards,
Vladimir