[UA] pi

[Steven Howard]

In <F181rw0m25q8awYFDIf00002d0a at hotmail.com>, on 09/06/00 
   at 12:45 AM, "Werdeth Holm" <holms_page at hotmail.com> said:

>I also thought about the taboo for a classic mathematics school, which
>I  thought might involve _not_ using numbers outside of a ritual
>context, ie.  no using phone numbers, social security numbers, credit
>cards, addresses,  etc.  It would be such a great taboo, in fact, that
>actually being an adept  of the math/numbers school would be almost
>impossible in a modern society,  hence the reason for its extinction.

The Pythagoreans wouldn't eat beans.  I forget why.

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Steven Howard                    
mrblore at earthlink.net


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