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By Yxhuvud (IP: 85.194.51.---) - Posted on 2005-06-23 18:31:21
The really ironic thing with this article is that (as Vincesnzo said) the Pythagorean society was a closed one. Yes they were brilliant for their time (except for not allowing reals, only rationals and integers. Some member that proposed introducing them is known to have been killed cause it would have made the beautiful math they had ugly, or something like that). Also, it was punishable by death for revealing the society's secrets (ie the math) to outsiders.
Doesn't really sound like OSS principles does it? :)
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