Re: OT: White Goddess

> >    Think of truth and fact like circles and squares -
> > a square is a circle, with sufficient numbers of sides
> > (or however that saying goes - I know I got it wrong).
>
>Wrong.  A square is a polygon.  A circle is beyond a polygon.  It has
>transcended infinity.  You cannot give a polygon enough sides to *be* a
>circle, it can only *approach* a circle.  The difference is not merely a
>matter of degree.
Eh, seeing that I supposed to be good at math, I should probably know this
myself, but what's the difference between a circle and a regular polygon
with an infinite number of sides? I definitely recall being told by my math
teacher tellin' me they're the same ...

                                                      Andreas
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