Theos-Talk Archives (March 2005 Message tt00068)

Friday, March 4, 2005, 10:25:29 AM, leonmaurer wrote:

> However, we must understand that Pi is not an exact measurement
> of length, such as the radius or the circumference of a circle, but is simply
> the mathematical ratio between those measurements.

I'd like to add that "length" is the distance between two points and
by definition must follow a straight line, therefore, strictly
speaking, circumference or any other curve cannot have length,
although we may approximate a curve by a sequence of straight lines
(which we actually do). :-) Hence Pi is a ratio between two objects of
different nature, which is quite unnatural...

Best regards,
Vladimir