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		backprojection on Jan 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pi Is Wrong "he says that our description of nature (that we are using pi) is flawed" Every description we'll ever have will probably be flawed to some degree. I concur that it's hogwash

sev on Jan 27, 2012 [–]

Agreed. Forget Pi, maybe the way we count is flawed!

nodemaker on Jan 27, 2012 | [–]

I think any way of counting will have the same basic axioms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms)

Also See What are numbers, and what is their meaning?: Dedekind http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~snburris/htdocs/scav/dedek/ded...

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