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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:clarkedavid8@aol.com">clarkedavid8@aol.com</a></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.26 (02) [EN<br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":69" class="ii gt">
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 3px;">think if you write 3.14 on a piece of paper and hold it up to a<br>mirror, you'll see exactly why this letter was chosen to represent the<br>constant!<br>
<br>Does anybody know of any similar derivations for well-known terms? Â :)<br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a><br>
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Apparently the Latin name Ulysses came from a Roman misreading of the Greek letters spelling Odysseus (probably on a pot).</div>
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<div>David Clarke</div>
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.26 (02) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="im">From: Sandy Fleming <span><<a href="http://uk.mc264.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.24 (01) [EN]<br><br>I think if you write 3.14 on a piece of paper and hold it up to a<br>mirror, you'll see exactly why this letter was chosen to represent the<br>constant!<br>
<br>Does anybody know of any similar derivations for well-known terms?  :)<br><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">That pre-supposes that: </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">a)Â Â the term was first coined in English, so it would sound like "pie";</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">b)Â Â Â it was first used after the introduction of decimal notation so it could be expressed as 3.14....etc.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">Neither is true; a likely source is that it
is the first letter of Perimeter (in Greek), and it was always
expressed a fraction with 22/7 as the closest estimate, long before
decimal notation was invented.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">The Egyptians thought it had to be 3. It
clearly wasn't when they measured it, so they deduced that it must be a
Divine 3 that the Gods used, rather than mere mortal 1-2-3 that we
use. This we call "The Wisdom of the Ancients".</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jonny</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.26 (02) [EN]</span><br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><div id=":48" class="ii gt">
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Hi, Sandy,
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><font color="#ff0000">>>I
think if you write 3.14 on a piece of paper and hold it up to a<br>>>mirror, you'll see
exactly why this letter was chosen to represent the<br>>>constant!</font></span></div>
<div>Â </div>
</div><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>But it is a 'pie',
isn't it?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><span></span> Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Â </div><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#888888">
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div>
<div align="left">Lower Saxony,
Germany</div></font></div>
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.26 (01) [EN-NDL]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br>
</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Given that Cortez's legendary interpreter "Dona Maria" was fluent
in both Nahuatl and at least one Mayan language, it's hard to see why
there was any confusion really. Perhaps she hadn't got the hang of
Spanish at that stage?</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Paul</span><br>
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