(October 18, 2016 at 1:22 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(October 18, 2016 at 10:46 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Can you conceive of a possible world in which pi is not the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter?
Yes, this world. There are no perfect circles in this world so pi is an idealization created by minds. It doesn't exist anywhere but in mind.
A perfect circle can be physically made. And nature makes perfect spheres all the time as bubbles.
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