{"id":231,"date":"2005-10-10T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/10\/10\/the-art-of-being-1150-and-a-ralbag"},"modified":"2005-10-10T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T16:42:46","slug":"the-art-of-being-1150-and-a-ralbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/10\/10\/the-art-of-being-1150-and-a-ralbag\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of being 11:50, and a RaLBaG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1109'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometime after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=508916\">11:50<\/a><br \/>\nlast night, I received a pointer to a delightful paper on medieval<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.207.104\/search?q=cache:foOST9jpCP4J:www.cs.biu.ac.il\/%7Etsaban\/Pdf\/MathofLevi.pdf+%22the+ralbag%22&amp;hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a\">mathematics<br \/>\nof the RaLBaG<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nTwo charming stories in one night, one<br \/>\nlibrary staffer, and a Simonson!&nbsp; Now the question is : did the<br \/>\nstory about the internal circumfrence and external diameter come from<br \/>\nhim directly, or from Nehemiah as suggested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pi#History_of_.CF.80\">History of Pi<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime after 11:50 last night, I received a pointer to a delightful paper on medieval mathematics of the RaLBaG.&nbsp; Two charming stories in one night, one library staffer, and a Simonson!&nbsp; Now the question is : did the story about the internal circumfrence and external diameter come from him directly, or from Nehemiah as suggested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-mod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}