That is one mighty impressive handle ya got there. And this video seems to be an introductory level course, so it must be important to the way things are done. You must be an expert.
Popcorn. Check. Diet soda, check. Dog freshly peed out, check. TV on for background noise. Check.
Ok teach, let's get rolling.
Whoa....first question. You pronounce your name like Guh-mah-tri-nay-tour. Your list of references mentions you are a frequent contributor to Hubbard's radio show which you both pronounce as Jeh-may-tree-ah Ef-ect. Two experts and you can't reach an agreement on how to pronounce Gematria? Oh, it's how it's spelled that matters. I'm satisfied, move on.
Ok. List of various liars. Media, NASA? Hmmm....sounds like flat Earth coming up. This should be good.
My buddy Pi after just a couple of minutes. Fire away....Alrighty. Pi is the foundation that links geometry with Gematria because of circles.
Whoa...<raises hand>. Ya'll tellin' me that English wording is founded in what's represented by a letter of the *Greek* alphabet? An alphabet with 24 letters instead if 26?And the syllabus of topics covered in the intro mentions translations of the Bible, also not written in English originally? Just so we're clear on that point. Ok, that makes all kinds of fucking sense.
Finally instead of 'equal to' or 'representing Pi' someone acknowledges that 22/7 is not exactly equal to Pi. Accurate to about 1/1000 of a %. That explains a lot. NASA has been using the wrong value of Pi all along. Fucks up rocket trajectories over long distances. Maybe they landed on some undiscovered planet, or more likely the moon of some planet.
ALT 227 is the code to use to bring up the Pi character on the computer. <raises hand>. Ummm...doesn't that depend on what platform/operating system/software you use? If these people have been controlling things for ages how did they let these rebels let ALT 227 be something else? Got it. Rocket trajectory fucked up by using wrong computer system.
Now we're making progress. Circles in the lecture. And squares. A square is the only geometric shape other than the circle that has 360 degrees. The sum of the angles, 90x4 Um.....<timidly raises hand>....I thought ANY four sided figure summed up to 360 degree?
Oh screw this. I'll get around to digesting more of this video later, but I've had enough for now. Although I have some satisfaction seeing that Pi does not equal 22/7 this video still is damned by it's use of 22/7 as an OFFICE Oh Fuckety Fuck It's Close Enough. There are lots of practical applications that require accuracy better than 1/1000 of a percent. Machining of prevision tools...don't want it to shake itself apart because things didn't fit right. Radiometry, space travel. All science and math related to these.
You can't keep deciding when you can invoke real math and science to make your case sound cool and deny it later. And don't even begin to think of trying that media cover up angle on me for this next bit. I've seen Dan and Zach use Wikipedia in their blog and videos. (And it's not just Wiki, this is "out there" on other sites).
Pi is an irrational number. By definition it CANNOT be expressed by any fractional whole number equivalent. Pi expressed to a couple hundred decimal places is needed at times. Rarely, sure, but sometimes three decimal places is nowhere near close enough. Pi involves the concept of infinity..a multi sided shape with an infinite number if sides is a circle. If you are invoking Pi you are ostensibly accepting the concept of infinity. And a two or three digit number compared to infinity is nowhere, no how, no way "close enough."
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I researched the reason ALT 227 is sometimes used for Pi. It's the Goddamn Girl Scouts. When they where first looking into cornering the avocado market they had just purchased an Apple Computer. They initially intended to make little fruit pies, but that was a copyright of the Falk family. Using their vast resources they placed key people in positions of power to create Ritz crackers. The computer was so ok it could only handle five decimal places. The typically circular pie crust was a little bit off as it was based on 22/7, rounded. So instead of a true fruit pie they got a.....
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A mock Apple Pi.
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