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Danny Bersch wrote:

> Actually, these are not that absurd.  The semiconductor industry, for
> years, used the equivalence (1 mil) = (0.025 micron).  When device
> geometries were on the order of a mil or two and error was 5%, this
> was close enough.  Pi comes from the ratio of the circumference of
> a circle to its diameter.  The ancients could have chosen the inverse
> ratio and given pi a value nearer 0.31831, and the universe would
> still have unfolded as it should.  EE's tend to use 'j' for the
> "imaginary" axis, rather than 'i'.  Who knows, perhaps the theory
> would be easier to learn if we considered the axis to be the frequency
> axis rather than a "make-believe" axis.

Oh, so had they decided to choose the value of pi to be .31831, it would
have stayed that way?  That is absurd.  The value of pi can be computed
infinitely, and no matter what system we use, it's still the same damn
value.  A circle is a circle.  There is a precise method for creating a
circle too.  The only way the constant pi could be changed is if the
UNIVERSE changed.  The same goes for e and the speed of light.  Get a
grip, imaginary does not exist no matter what letter you represent it
with.  Go ahead and argue that we could have chosen 2 to be 3, 7 to be
336, and 1+1 = 5, but it is still not true in this universe.