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from: John Tserkezis
date: 2004-05-05 07:24:58
subject: Re: Widescreen

From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

David Drummond wrote:

>  NP> I thought Parthenon was the ratio of Phi.  Cant remember the formula
>  NP> though......
> 
> 3.14159 (or something like that)....

  That was the pyramids wasn't it?

  And as I understand it, it wasn't because they knew Pi to x demical places, 
it was because they just happened to use a wheel to measure the size of the 
blocks and such.
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