Pat: You can't show the real letter pi in a plain text message (you need HTML formatting, using the symbol font for the pi). Your pi is coming out as the single character for 1/4.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Pat Naughtin >Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 13:58 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24655] Odd numbers 1357 > > >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 >
