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Re: Theos-World Re: Pi as a fractional number?

Mar 07, 2005 04:16 AM
by Mauri




leonmaurer@aol.com wrote:

<<C) Also, from a theosophical metaphysical standpoint and considering the nature of fundamental reality -- Pi is an "exact" ratio if you carry out the
fraction to an infinite number of places. >>>>

But how can that ratio be infinite and exact (at the end of a long row of carry-outs) at the same time? Either things are infinite, or they're not, seems to me.

<<[Mathematics can have exact limits --
even to an infinite set of infinities according to Cantor, Minkowsky, Einstein, Bohm, et al. :-] >>>

But "can" and "do" are two different things, eh ...

Speculatively,
Mauri





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