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They probably didn't have the modern form we use where plugging in different values like 1 is a natural and obvious thing to do. Regardless, they were a weird r
by AlotOfReading 2y ago
They probably didn't have the modern form we use where plugging in different values like 1 is a natural and obvious thing to do. Regardless, they were a weird religious cult. They could have just regarded numbers that didn't produce rational numbers as unnatural and not something that was going to occur in the actual functioning of the world.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> They probably didn't have the modern form we use where plugging in different values like 1 is a natural and obvious thing to do. No, but the form they used was that they thought about lines in a plane that had no particular scale other than whatever you might assign to them. "Plugging in 1" for the sides of a right triangle in that model just means that you look at an isosceles right triangle. It will always be obvious.