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From: etabello@arena.carleton.ca (Elias Tabello)
Subject: Re: Limits to neural networking and Do circles really exist? [LONG]
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> (Duggan Dieterly) writes: 
> Is it true, then, that perfect circles do not exist in the real
> world?  Could someone please expand on this? 

How about an explanation without vague terms such as ideal and real.
Picture a 'perfect' sphere made of stainless steel, whose size and
proportions could be accurately described by employment of pi.
Take a 1-atom-thick cross section precisely at the diameter.
Hollow out the circle until you have a 1-atom-thick ring.

This is a polygon.
Connect the dots.

"The four great circles of a sphre.  The spherical tetrahedron divides
area of sphere into four triangulated areas (base x alt), eliminating
need for pi"

"Nature does not use unresolvable numbers in her designs, only 20th
century scientists and high school math departments."

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