Bacteria evolve; Conservapedia demands recount
Alberto Monteiro
albmont at centroin.com.br
Tue Jul 1 10:24:51 PDT 2008
David Hobby wrote:
>
> A lot of people don't like imaginary numbers, so that would
> be popular. I don't think it says in the Bible that sqrt(2)
> is rational, so they'd probably let it stay irrational. : )
>
I guess the only vaguely math related topic in the Bible
is the approximation pi ~ 3.
>> Conservapedia is quite poor in Math articles.
>
> Hence the question: How blatantly can they steal content
> they want from other sources, just slapping it on their
> site? It seems their best chance of getting comprehensive
> coverage.
>
If you consider that Wikipedia's math content was stolen
from Eric W. Weisstein's MathWorld, who, in his turn, also
stole from voluntary contributions, then I think it's fine.
Alberto Monteiro
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