Thanks, Bill. It showed as the correct Greek letter on my screen before I sent it.
I'll try workarounds in future. Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia on 2003-01-29 09.49, Bill Potts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 >> >
