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- From: davidc@panix.com (David B. Chorlian)
- Subject: Re: why is pi irrational
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- References: <1993Jan19.170820.73297@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <pete.03vb@bignode.equinox.gen.nz> <1993Jan21.133623.20957@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:28:35 GMT
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- In <1993Jan21.133623.20957@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan) writes:
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- >Where does the Bible say that the earth is flat? I do not deny that most
- >of the writers of the Bible thought the earth to be flat (as did everyone
- >else at the time), but did they say so in the writings that now form the
- >Bible?
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- At the time of the writing of the New Testament, it was known to
- educated Greeks that the world was spherical. Some Church Father of
- the 3rd or 4th century, whose name begins with an 'L', believed
- the world to be flat, from scriptural evidence, but this was
- politely dismissed by the better informed.
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- >--
- >Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- >gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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- David B. Chorlian
- Neurodynamics Lab
- SUNY/HSCB
- davidc@panix.com
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