luc said:naorma said:Truely amazing!
Second that! It seems so simple this way, because actually, it is!
Damn teachers making it look so complicated by using strange formulas, weird abbreviations and explanations like "Pi is an infinite number because, well, it has something to do with irrational numbers, which you actually don't know yet and we will never tell you about them unless you study math at the university, but never mind, let's look at some definitions for sinus and cosinus: Sin(0)=0; ...
The inventor of the geodesic dome, Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, had an interesting opinion regarding Pi. While observing bubbles forming in the wake
behind the speeding boat he was in he wondered at the mechanics of such a phenomenon. The formation of the bubbles required computation
incorporating Pi, an irrational number. Curiosity regarding the seeming impossibility, or at the very least difficulty, that even "nature" could accomplish this
feat struck ol' Bucky as a dilemma, especially with the formation speed. He eventually determined that the surface of the bubbles was faceted on a molecular
scale; therefore, Pi was not a factor.
Pi works great on paper but...
