Narnia
How can I not? There’s beauty in math, and if you disagree, I’d bet my last dollar that you never got as far as Calculus (the point where math starts to get really cool. Algebra is mundane, and Arithmetic is better left to calculators, but Calculus and beyond is orgasmic, but my fetishes have always trended toward the bizarre).
i have such a big crush on you, metabiblio (also remixd, right?), you don’t even know !
Thanks! I’m totally flattered (and I on you, how could I not?).
But I should warn you, I have left a trail of train wreck detritus in my wake, and after untold failed relationships I took a look in the mirror and realized the problem was staring back at me.
![The first advanced knowledge of the value of pi originated in China, but was forgotten there in the fourteenth century . When the Jesuits went to China in the seventeenth century, the Chinese were impressed by the European knowledge of pi. Here we see a diagram explaining Liu Hui’s exhaustion method in 264 AD for finding the value of pi. By inscribing 3072 sides of a polygon in a circle, Liu Hui was able to overtake the Greeks and compute the value to a fifth decimal place at 3.14159. By the fifth century, the value was computed to ten decimal places. In Europe, pi was only approximately calculated to seven places by the year 1600, a full twelve hundred years later.
[source:librarythinkquest.org]](http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/pi.jpg)
