Albirea
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15 Mar 2012, 11:07 pm
slave wrote:
Albirea wrote:
slave wrote:
Albirea wrote:
Shatbat wrote:
Ugh... I got a rejection letter from the MIT on pi day. Guess that ruined it for me.
Well, this is extremely awkward...To think that I was chosen as one of the 150 out of 4000 international MIT applicants when 30 others were rejected... *guilt*
It really breaks my heart to think about it. Every one of them deserve to be accepted. They've all worked so hard for this. Especially you.
Albirea, you were accepted?
What prog.?
Congrats!! !! MIT is such an excellent institution. I hope you love it! And YOU deserve it!
All my best to you and feel free to tell WP what you are learning I for one would love to hear.
16 Mar 2012, 1:42 am
visagrunt wrote:
the fundamental characteristic of π is nowhere better identified than in Euler's identity.
Circular logic. Why does everyone say that Euler's identity is wonderful? It's because they say that it is made up of fundamental constants! You can't then go and say that pi is a fundamental constant because it turns up in Euler's identity.
visagrunt wrote:
"The entire family of numbers derived from π," is precisely that: derived from π.
"The family of numbers derived from pi" = "The family of numbers derived from 2pi".
visagrunt wrote:
It is special in that the result is always the same no matter what the dimensions of the circle.
Why does that not apply to 2pi?
visagrunt wrote:
The fact that it is based on humans having ten fingers is anything but arbitrary.
Really? I can't think of anything more arbitrary than the fact that we have ten fingers. If we quoted pi's decimal representation to aliens with 11 fingers, they wouldn't understand why we thought it was special.
nat4200 wrote:
Are you a tau supporter? Do you have the same issues with Tau Day?
Yes, I have the same issues with Tau Day. However, I support the existence of Tau Day. My hope is that the existence of Tau Day will cause people to think about the fundamental issues, so that they will understand that both days are silly.
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