Around 1750 BCE, a Babylonian worker needed roughly 42 hours of labor to afford 1,000 lumen-hours of sesame-oil light.. With modern LED lighting, the same quantity can cost only a fraction of a second of average labor in some estimates. This is proof of how technology can drive down the labor-time price of a good.
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The earliest records of mankind’s awareness of π are to be found among the Babylonians and Egyptians. Some four thousand years ago, they knew about π as the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
The Babylonians gave the value of π as 25⁄8, while the Egyptians used (4⁄3)⁴, which works out to be 256⁄81. It is amazing that the Babylonian value is only 0.5% off the correct value of π, while the Egyptian estimate is 0.6% off.
Today, students in elementary schools routinely use the estimate of 22⁄7 for π, which despite its simplicity is only 0.04% off its correct value. This estimate is attributed to the great Greek mathematician and physicist Archimedes (287–212 BC). Yes, he is the one who ran naked in the streets and shouted “Eureka” after discovering the principle of displacement of water.
A more accurate approximation of π, but still a simple ratio, is 355⁄113. This gives π accurate to six decimal places.
π is also essential for calculating many properties of curved figures and objects:
Area of a circle = πR² (R is the radius)
Surface area of a sphere = 4πR²
Volume of a sphere = (4⁄3)πR³
Surface area of a hollow cylinder = 2πRH (H is the height of the cylinder)
Volume of a cylinder = πR²H
This simple number, π, has proven to be an extremely important universal constant that finds applications in many branches of mathematics, science, and technology, beginning with the simple circle and sphere.
At the other extreme of complexity, π also appears in one of Albert Einstein’s field equations for his theory of general relativity (1916), which describes mathematically how gravity arises from the curvature of space-time:
Rₐᵦ − ½Rgₐᵦ = (8πG⁄c⁴)Tₐᵦ
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THE STATE OF CONTROL
Section 15 of the U.S. Code defines a federal corporation as a company created by the U.S. government. This means that anyone born in the U.S. is legally tied to the country under the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship at birth.
The United States was known as the Virginia Company until 1776, when it was renamed the United States of America, a British trading company linked to the City of London Corporation. This company helped establish colonies in North America and was connected to the British royal family.
The Magna Carta, signed in 1215 by King John, is an important historical document that inspired freedoms later included in the U.S. Constitution.
Today, the City of London Corporation governs a small one-square-mile area in London, which is legally separate from the rest of the city and country. Similarly, Washington, D.C. and the Vatican are unique sovereign areas, not part of any state or country. Washington, D.C. was once called “Rome” due to its architecture, which reflects the styles favored by the Jesuits.
The Vatican, City of London, and D.C. are the 3 states the control the world today.
This spiritual-political empire is none other than the cryptic Babylonian system foretold in Revelation 17, now resurrected in Rome under a globalist mask. Despite any modern title he may adopt, Caesar remains the undisputed high priest and political head of this mystery religion, ruling from his symbolic “Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.”
With the clandestine signing of the OSLO Accords in 1990 concealed from public scrutiny the Papacy gained indirect control over 60% of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, thanks to the manipulations of Shimon Peres and his Jesuit-trained team of Sabbatian-Frankist elites.
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© Santos Bonacci
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