<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341234" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Number Debate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once pi and i had a debate<br>About which is better<br>A square root of minus one<br>Or being a Greek letter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Be rational, ' said i to pi, <br>'You make things complicated-<br>No matter how they measure you, <br>You always come truncated.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said pi to i: 'So what, my friend, <br>It's really no big deal-<br>I'm transcendental unlike you, <br>And you aren't even real.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But if you want to be exact, <br>Then you come nowhere near<br>To finding areas of disks<br>Or a volume of a sphere'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said i to pi: 'It may be so, <br>But you forgot to mention<br>That you're a point on a line, <br>And I have two dimensions.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For if you want nth roots of one, <br>Therein is my appeal-<br>I'll find all roots of one for you-<br>Imaginary and real.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And I can add and multiply<br>All points in a plane, <br>For I'm more than decimals<br>By real line constrained.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While they continued to debate, <br>Infinity appeared, <br>Saying to both pi and i: <br>'You both are nowhere near.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You both are finite, real or not, <br>But I'd take a bet<br>That none of you can match the size<br>Of countable sets.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So it was settled-pi and i<br>Were finally set free, <br>For both found that they're too small<br>To match infinity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>March 26,2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexander+Shaumyan">Alexander Shaumyan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341234" data-title="Number Debate de Alexander Shaumyan" data-description="Once pi and i had a debate About which is better A square root of minus one Or being a Greek letter. 'Be rational, ' said i to pi, 'You make things complicated- No matter how they measure you, You always come truncated.' Said pi to i: 'So what..."></div> </div> </div>

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