[tips] Re: Man recites pi to 100,000 places - Yahoo! News

[Robert Wildblood]

Interesting.  While attending a major engineering school for all of my academic degrees, and even as it was used in one of the cheers (those things that people used to do during football and basketball games in the time shortly after the earth cooled) pi was always stated as 3.14159.  Must be an US vs a Canadian thing. On 4 Oct 2006, at 11:31, Christopher D. Green wrote: Something for him to do between clients I suppose. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_fe_st/memorizing_pi I particularly love the line: "It [pi] is usually written out to a maximum of three decimal places, as 3.141, in math textbooks." Where do journalists get this stuff? I have NEVER seen it written to three decimals like this, primarily (I presume) because it would be INACCURATE to do so. If it were to be rounded off after three decimals, it would be 3.14*2*. But in any case, I have almost always seen it rounded off as 3.14 or  3.1416. Pedantically annoyed, Chris Dr. Bob Wildblood Lecturer in Psychology Indiana University Kokomo 2300 S Washington St PO Box 9003 Kokomo, IN 46904-9003 765-455-9483 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Too many good docs are getting out of the business.  Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country." George W. Bush.  Poplar Bluff, Missouri; September 6, 2004. "I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch.  I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is, they pass the laws and I execute them. George W. Bush.  Washington, D.C.; December 18, 2000 "I'm the master of low expectations." George W. Bush.  Aboard Air Force One; June 4, 2003 "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin, 1775 "We are what we pretend to be, so we better be careful what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english