"Steinar H. Gunderson" wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:55:32AM +0300, Jukka Tapani Santala wrote:
> >you can compare this to something like the value of Pi, relation of the
> >radius to the circumference, which human mind tries to instantly
> >rationalize as a "real" number, demonstrated clearly by the actual attempt
> >to _legalize_ Pi as 3. In fact, ask anyone what Pi is, and majority of
> >them will instantly reply to you "3.14".
>
> I'd say 3.1415926535897932, just to confuse people :-) (Yes, I do remember
> those decimals. Why? For fun.)
Just to continue the off-topic discussion a little, I'd guess that a lot
of people would say "22 over 7" as to what Pi is.
I've always been impressed with the approximation of 355/113 - accurate
to 7 decimal places and easy to remember (two 3's, two 5's and two
1's)...
Simon.
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