Dear Brij,

A little while ago, you shared with us some fractional values of � that you
had collected and I remarked that if you write the number 113355 with the
last three digits as the numerator and the first three digits as the
denominator then you get a very good approximation for �.

355/113 = 3.1415929

Now to get to the metric bit that might be relevant to this list.

Last night I calculated the distance to the Earth's horizon from a height of
1�metre above the ground. The result came to 3.57�kilometres.

1�metre 3.57 kilometres

That's an odd numbered pattern!

Cheers,

Pat Naughtin LCAMS
Geelong, Australia

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