Is the “locus of a number” your invention? Or is there an
online resource where I can read it up?
0. You say: the locus of Pi is a circular arc.
Now my questions:
1. What is the locus of 47.32?
Answer:
2. What is the locus of sqrt(2)?
Answer:
3. What is the locus of sqrt(Pi)+7?
Answer:
You think you found an interesting problem regarding
the “locus of a number”. But as long as the definition
of “locus of a number” is a problem, there is no
really interesting problem.
Well as long as there’s no interest there’s no interesting problem.
You’ve provided the interest. So there’s an interesting problem.
Cheers,
Rainer Rosenthal
Kategorie: Night People · site
Otagowane: interesting problem, Pi, questions
Lester Zick wrote:
Because I’m not interested in demonstrating the magnitude of pi but in
demonstrating its locus. Which I’ve done according to Archimedes
method for limiting the magnitude of pi. And I’ve said this so many
times in so many different ways I’m beginning to believe that despite
the language difference you must be somewhat hard of thinking.
I know I’m somewhat hard of thinking. But wasn’t that a bit helpful
in the course of this thread?
16th Oct:
LZ: Not sure I’m being clear here, Rainer. Pi doesn’t “approach” a
LZ: circular arc; …
LZ: The problem we have is to determine the value of pi.
Oh, didn’t you say you weren’t interested in the value of Pi?
I checked the course of this thread and you must agree that at first
I had tried to find out about your “locus of Pi” and the “approaching”
idea. See above, where you say “Not sure I’m being clear here”.
There were mistakes on your side regarding the usage of “approaching”
as well as the usage of “transcendental”. You address the “problem to
determine the value of Pi” and at the same time you say you weren’t
interested in the magnitude of Pi.
And until now I don’t have the faintest idea what “the locus” of a
number should be. And there was not one poster here who seemed to
understand either. I am sure you are trying your best to explain
your wonderful insights, but it seems as if “best” wasn’t good enough.
So I encourage you: insights out!
Kategorie: Lifson
Otagowane: Archimedes method, mistakes, Pi, the language difference
