The Elder Malaclypse
09-03-2005, 20:05
I was reading about Pythagoras, what a kick ass guy he was? He and his followers worshipped numbers and he believed that the world was made from perfect numbers. Here's the kick ass part: when one of his followers pointed out that numbers like pi and e were not defined and so the world was not made from perfect numbers, he drowned him! What a guy.
I was reading about Pythagoras, what a kick ass guy he was? He and his followers worshipped numbers and he believed that the world was made from perfect numbers. Here's the kick ass part: when one of his followers pointed out that numbers like pi and e were not defined and so the world was not made from perfect numbers, he drowned him! What a guy.
We were told the reason for his drowning was...well, that, but more the fact that he drew a right-angled triangle with sides 1,1 and, using his theorem, showed that the hypotenuse was totally impossible to measure completely accurately.
Fairly similar I suppose. Yes, he was a cool guy.