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TrogL

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7. That actually came up

Reply to Ikonoklast (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 5, 2012, 11:46 AM

Dec 2012

...in a debate I was having over same-sex marriage.

Someone claimed that faith in a deity is equivalent to faith in imaginary numbers such as root of 1.

I countered with pi * 10 = 30 in Kings, then dragged out a measuring tape and used it on a circular garbage can, deriving a value of 3.1-and-a-bit.

I couldn't remember the mathematical proof, but I could certainly disprove a value of 3.0 on observation of reality.

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