[FRIAM] The yin and yang of numbers across cultures

[Martin C. Martin]

It has a geometric interpretation.  But there are places where a real 
number line is useful beyond denoting locations & times in our universe. 
  The original poster was saying that, where gravity warps space 
strongly, we would no longer use Pi.  I was saying we would, since it 
comes up in other ways.

- Martin

Eric Smith wrote:
> except of course that the pi that appears in the Gaussian integral is
> the angular measure, by which the gaussian on the line reduces to the
> exponential on the plane.  So is it geometric, or is it not?  
> 
> Eric
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