FIRST: The Pi Conspiracy

[DonRotolo]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Notice he only said they were "working on" fire; instead they came up with Magic Smoke.

...and for that, we thank him.

[ebarker]

Yeah, after I got fire done I directed my attention to other matters.

The next invention was squares and cubes. After a while I taught some people how to stack cubes. Problem was they stacked them in tall triangular shapes in the desert, and across the Americas too.

They had a real tough time moving those big cubes so I figured I could invent a circle. Once I had the circle it wasn't too hard to invent the wheel. Once that was done it got a lot easier to move the cubes. The triangular part just fell out of the whole exercise.

Then Archimedes came along and sorta ran off off with the whole cube triangle circle thing. Just saying'

One day I'll have to tell you about bronze.....

[Libby K]

I'm glad someone posted the video that explains the logo. Dean's 'favorite principle' of Archimedes lives on in the logo, designed by his father.

It makes me proud to see that spirit in the students who just doodle and think and wonder about all the little things like this

As Jane said - doodle on.

[Bob Steele]

This is quite interesting... I love to hear math bantered about.
One thing though... Archimedes did not "invent" nor "discover" Pi
The relationship between a circle's circumference and its diameter was well known by his time... The Babylonians knew of it... and the Eqyptians.. among just a few

The value the Babylonians used was 3 and 1/4
and the Eqyptians used 256/81

Most commonly 22/7 was used.

Archimedes was a genius by any standard but he did not discover Pi.
He did use it to remarkable effect though...

Oh and Mr. Barker... We Mayans have this thing we came up with... kinda round and "wheely" looking
So far we only use it on toys... can't find any other uses yet... still working...........


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