Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:36:25 12/12/99
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On December 12, 1999 at 13:50:47, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On December 12, 1999 at 13:22:22, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: > >>> >>>yep.. although I don't see why it is 'funny'. I see that kind of intuition from >>>students all the time. No one thinks to compute Diameter=Circumference/Pi. >>>Since Pi is roughly 3, if you add 3 feet to the circumference, you add 1 foot >>>to the diameter, or about 1/2 foot clearance all the way around the world. >>> >>>(BTW, yes, I know pi=3.1415265358979323846264...).. :) >> >>that is 3.1415_9_26 I think ;-) > >It is, and that's why Bob goes fishing. :) > >Enrique I do fish a lot. But I had an oddball math teacher at Mississippi State Unversity in 1966. She had a photographic memory, and thought that _everyone_ could develop one if they only wanted to bad enough. She made everyone memorize Pi to 100 decimel places. And if you ran into her on campus, she might well stop you and ask you to recite it. If you didn't, it cost you points in class. And _she_ always remembered when someone forgot. :)
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