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TopicPi is wrong.
AlecTrevelyan006
08/11/11 11:30:00 AM
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From: Ness26 | #007
The article isn't necessarily calling for change. If you read this paper on the subject...
http://www.math.utah.edu/~palais/pi.pdf
the second paragraph states that he's not really expecting any change, but it's more of a "oops" moment, that we defined a constant poorly. It's like if e was defined as 1/e for whatever reason. All of the math would still work, we'd just have negative signs all over the place, because we were using a modified form of the truly significant number.


So, kinda like how Ben Franklin defined electrons as the negative charge so we have to deal with that whenever we do electromagnetic calculations?

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