Re: v2 - THE IRRATIONAL NUMBERS


Michael Stemper wrote:
In article <1158498968.149879.235020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pravin writes:

Origin of Irrationals:
We all know Pythagoras by his famous theorem on hypotenuse of right
angle triangle called by his name. He together with his disciples
called Pythagorean brotherhood.

One of his disciples ran up against this, something very mysterious and
baffling to them, and something that many people still find difficult
to understand, the first time they encounter it.

What he found is this:
There is no common measure for the length of a side of a square an
the length of its diagonal.

He came to this conclusion when he working on squares whose sides are
1cm.

It's amazing what you can learn on Usenet. How did a disciple of
Pythagoras measure a side of 1cm?

They measured out a quarter of the Earth's circumference, and divided
it by 100,000.

You owe the Internet Oracle a _really_ long tape measure.

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