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[_] [?] In with the repost... Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)04:01 No.1510660
I can't get over this song. Rap part ruined it IMO.
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>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)05:33 No.1510689
:'D
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)06:37 No.1510705
Those clowns, man.
Those clowns ;__;
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)09:35 No.1510749
...What is the target audience for this? I thought it was kids, but I'm pretty sure the rapper
swore, plus the rest of the song, while I can't fully understand it, seems to be implying pi will
kill God.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)10:23 No.1510757
"Die someone say pie?"
I knew that was coming!
>> [_] Dave 05/16/11(Mon)10:54 No.1510764
jesus christ how terrifying
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)14:08 No.1510817
There is no way that little Asian girl didn't know what Pi was
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)15:17 No.1510837
>>1510749
The Greeks were obsessed with perfection. They were convinced the planets moved in perfect
circles around the sun and even came up with models that worked. So when Pi was determined to be
a strange number that seemed to go on forever, they were distraught. So this song is about how Pi
destroys the world of perfect angles by adding curves, and we learned to let go of mathematical
"perfection" and pursue true knowledge.
The part that's confusing you is "And if our transcendental lift should find a final floor, then
man will know the death of God where wonder was before." It's the idea that the last digit of pi,
or at least in its entirety, is the last mystery of the universe. If we were able to overcome
this challenge, we would know all the mysteries of the universe. And by removing this veil, we
would kill God by becoming the all knowing.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)15:27 No.1510843
>>1510837
>The Greeks were obsessed with perfection. They were convinced the planets moved in perfect
circles around the sun and even came up with models that worked. So when Pi was determined to be
a strange number that seemed to go on forever, they were distraught.
What_the_fuck_am_i_reading.jpg
Failed your ancient history and classical science classes, I see. While it is true that the
Pythagoreans and the Platonists saw humas as 'flawed' and the Cosmos/the heavens as 'perfect',
very few 'Greeks' actually hypothesized that the Earth moved around the Sun. Aristoteles
concerned himself with this particular topic for a while (before he turned to fucking with
animals and their classification), and of course Democritus (apocryphal) was said to hold that
the Sun was but a fiery rock, but none of them niggers ever did shit to seriously advance the
heliocentric model. Also, Ptolemios was a fucken Greek, retard.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)15:28 No.1510844
Like the asian girl wouldn't know what pi was.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:01 No.1510857
>>1510843
I never said anything about geocentric or heliocentric models. I do admit I said "around the
sun," which was wrong, but it was somewhat out of a kind of habit. What I was trying to say was
that in the Ptolemaic model, planets moved in perfect circles in their orbit, which we know today
is around the sun. I was trying not to go into too much detail about Pythagoreanism or the
Ptolemaic model as ten lines in this song blew this kid's mind.
There's no need to drop a What_the_fuck_am_i_reading.jpg. A simple "you probably mean ____" would
do.
>Also, Ptolemios was a fucken Greek, retard.
I never mentioned "Ptolemios." I don't know why you're trying to tell me he was Greek. I thought
I somewhat covered that. Good job on the spelling, by the way.
Fucking idiot.
>Also, Ptolemios was a fucken Greek, retard.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:14 No.1510863
>>1510857
Ptolemios is the equivalent transliteration of Πτολεμαῖος in English, rather than Ptolemaios
(since that is not how it is pronounced). And yes, he was fucken Greek, just like Archimedes in
Siracusa and Plutarchus in Latium. The Romans (as well as the locals) considered the subjects of
former Greek colonies with Greek ancestry as 'Greeks'. Archimedes lived in a part of Magna Graeca
(which was in the process of being conquered by the Italians) and Ptolemios in a part of the
Empire which once was part of Alexandros' Empire and then the Diodachis (Aegyptus under the
Ptolemies).
lrn2history.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:20 No.1510864
>>1510863
I never said he wasn't Greek. In English, he's called Ptolemy. Or at the very least, Ptolemaeus.
>> [_] They Hatin' 05/16/11(Mon)16:25 No.1510866
>>1510864
GODDAMN FUXCKC
Ptolemaeus is LATIN. Like Ioannes is John and Paulus is Paul. While Ptolemios is GREEK (as is
Ptolemaios Πτολεμαῖος in Greek characters).
Ptolemaeus is NOT English.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:37 No.1510872
I don't understand what everyone is fighting over.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:42 No.1510874
>>1510872
Pi. You have no idea what a pain in the ass it was to the Pythagoreans. They almost fought a
civil war over it.
It continues to terrorise and scar everyone from schoolboys on 4chan to scientists and the
Illuminati.
>> [_] Anonymous 05/16/11(Mon)16:57 No.1510877
>>1510874
Declassified documents which were recently released by the Russian Prime Minister's Office show
that the Great Patriotic War was started because Hitler and Stalin didn't agree on Pi's status.
They had previously gotten along very well at the start of WWII, but relations deteriorated when
a Jewish mathematician (some say Paul Sophus Epstein) theorized that Pi was rational.
The affair ended with the Declaration of War and General mobilization for Operation Barbarossa.
More than 6 million jews paid in kind.
