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Dec. 19th, 2003 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
learnedaxNew York plans to construct a tower 1776' high for technically symbolic reasons. Too bad they're not comemorating the Whiskey rebellion, or we could get a tower of e furlongs. Wouldn't that be much nicer?
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Date: 2003-12-19 01:36 pm (UTC)You could rig up springs with the right coefficients, but that's cheating. You could demonstrate Pi and then derive e from it, but that's unsatisfying. You could could iterate triangles based on the ratio expansion, but that's an approximation.
Of course, in the end a geometric method can still only define it as precisely as the precision of the tools available, in our world.