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The Ancients had been using Pi for over 4000 years....

"We will probably never know who first discovered that the ratio between a circle's circumference and diameter is constant, nor will we ever know who first tried to calculate this ratio. The people who initiated the hunt for pi were the Babylonians and Egyptians, nearly 4000 years ago."....David Wilson,history of mathematics.

nobody knows when the relationship of twice the
radius to the circumference was originally discovered....though it's far from being "modern"
and could in fact be well over 4000 years old.


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Re: The Alexanders*
By: Cactus Flower
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Sat, 21 Dec 13 11:20 PM
Msg. 15008 of 54959

you are switching from one environment (astrology?) to another (physics). one is not science. the other is.

the word radius has no relationship i know of to ra etymologically. and if you look up the modern meaning of radius in relationship to the width of a circle, it is a modern (ie non-classical) mathematical form. the ancients had the word but not the meaning of the word radius which we apply.

same with words to do with electricity, which derive from the Latin and Greek for amber, but were given their current sense by scientists in the seventeenth century who observed amber's attractive qualities.

just because you see that a word has a long usage doesn't mean that it has always held its definition. or that the associations you speculate upon actually have any history to them.

splitting ra and dius doesn't mean you have found something historically significant connecting the egyptian god ra with the latin "deus" meaning god.

sometimes a radius is just a radius.


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