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Re: pi (was Re: Is lightvelocity accelerating?)

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From: son3776
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 19:57
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Michael Weiss (mkw21@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> On 20 Mar 1995 son3776@utdallas.edu wrote:

> > Actually it is you who is "missing the concept".
> >
> > Constants such as planck's constant, etc. were first realized through
> > mathematical calculations (algebra, calculus, differential equations --
> > if that's not math, then I don't know what is).  Later they were
> > confirmed by experimentation.

> This is inaccurate.

Maybe it's because you neglected to quote the second half of my post
which stated that there were cases where the experimental data preceded
the mathematical data.

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Subject: Re: pi (was Re: Is lightvelocity accelerating?)
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