¶ Trigonometry
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Trigonometry:
"We were working on the text of the T Quanta Modules and Chris Kittrick objected that the volume of the triacontrahedron in the geometric hierarchy does not equal 5, that it works out to .4997. So I explained to him that all of the rational numbers in the hierarchy derive from the successive halving of tetrahedra. We get the irrationals in the triacontrahedron and in the icosahedron because we compute it trigonometrically.
“Trigonometry has no comprehensive rational quotients. Trigonometry is inherently rough because it is predicated on the notion of 360° around a circle in a plane.”
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, from Philadelphia; 26 Sep’77
