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To: Paul Berliner who wrote (2123)	9/28/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Daniel Chisholm	of 3536

...The whole Pi thing... If he's talking about circles, fundamental cycles and so forth, I could (arguaby) be persuaded to accept something with pi in it. At least I'd be willing to suspend disbelief for a while in order to hear him out... ;-) But multiplying pi by 1000 suddenly raises the stinko factor to me. 1000 looks like a pretty, round number to us only because we use base 10, however there's nothing at all fundamental about the number 1,000. Why should the fact that we are born with ten fingers work into our long term cyclical economic behavior? I would be far more likely to buy his argument if (say) the oscillation period he observed was 804.25 days or 1608.5 days (==pi256, pi512). He'd be more successful waving his hands and mumbling about "edge of chaos, period doubling, cycles, etc" to me if he used numbers like this, but then again I'm biased here (a computer type!). - Daniel

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