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- From: syliao@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stan Y Liao)
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- Subject: Re: why is pi irrational
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:23:21 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- > When it says the Earth is flat, however, it is inaccurate, rather than
- > imprecise.
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- It must be kept in mind, however, that for an ancient people the Earth
- DID look flat. They did not have enough instruments to observe beyond
- the extent they could. For all practical purposes of the ancient life
- the Earth is flat. You may as well say, in anticipation of the
- progress in science, that our current understanding of the universe is
- (or will be) inaccuarate. For in ten or twenty years, we will
- certainly be able to observe more than we can now.
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- Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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