From: Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 11:25 AM
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 09:16:25AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
> > #!/usr/bin/perl -w # how to (ab)use substr
> > use strict;
> > my $pi='3.14159210535152623346475240375062163750446240333543375062';
>
> Well, it's more just taking advantage of the fact that most people
> don't know more than six decimal places of Pi :-)
Yeah. That was pointed out on perlmonks.
> Actually it is a thing of great beauty.
It is, isn't it. It was written by Stephen Jenkins, the same chap that wrote
the camel code on the ThinkGeek tshirt
<http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/321a.html>.
He posts on Perlmonks under the name Erudil and _all_ of his posts are worth
checking out.
Dave...
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