[racket-dev] pi, was: Re: [plt] Push #28592: master branch updated

2014-04-22 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:48 PM, ntoro...@racket-lang.org wrote: racket/collects/racket/extflonum.rkt --- OLD/racket/collects/racket/extflonum.rkt +++ NEW/racket/collects/racket/extflonum.rkt @@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ (for-syntax racket/base)) (provide

Re: [racket-dev] pi, was: Re: [plt] Push #28592: master branch updated

2014-04-22 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthias Felleisen wrote at 04/22/2014 01:37 PM: I think we should dedicate this commit to Kate Bush's PI song (or vice versa?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZSHr5E7fZY Are Kate Bush dedications a slippery slope? Software developers will tend to work towards the metrics. Soon the

Re: [racket-dev] pi, was: Re: [plt] Push #28592: master branch updated

2014-04-22 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Kate Bush's song contains more digits of PI than your commit. What does Bagger 288 do for Racket commits? :-) On Apr 22, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Neil Van Dyke n...@neilvandyke.org wrote: Matthias Felleisen wrote at 04/22/2014 01:37 PM: I think we should dedicate this commit to Kate Bush's PI

Re: [racket-dev] pi, was: Re: [plt] Push #28592: master branch updated

2014-04-22 Thread Stephen Bloch
Songwriter Lucy Kaplansky (daughter of mathematician Irving Kaplansky, IIRC) isn't as famous as Kate Bush, but also wrote a pi song, with C=1, D=2, E=3, etc. Stephen Bloch sbl...@adelphi.edu On Apr 22, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Apr 22, 2014, at