Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00117)

But if you straighten out the circle it becomes a line.
Cass

John <GodLovesEveryone.org@gmail.com> wrote:

<< 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. >>

Pi is still a ratio, it is just not a ratio of two integers, which is 
the definition of a real number.

<< But anyway, originally "length" is measurable ... >>

We can't always stay with "original" usages. If we were to do that, one 
would not be a number.

Originally, one was not a number, it was "unity". The numbers were two 
and up, multiples of the unit.

And, of course, originally, zero was not a number. Just look at the 
Roman Numeral for Zero to see what I mean.

And length can be along a curve, otherwise, it would be meaningless to 
talk about the distance from here to London, unless you want to treat 
the distance from here to the opposite side of our planet as being a 
straight line only?

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