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

[Christopher D. Green]

Nope. I attended school in the US. Chris ========= Robert Wildblood wrote: 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] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english