Re: Re(2): TI-H: mind vs. computer

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Subject: Re: Re(2): TI-H: mind vs. computer
From: "David Knaack" <dknaack@geocities.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:57:17 -0600
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From: Dan <danti@applecyber.dyndns.com>
>3.1415926

3.1415926535897932384626.. from memory, might have a few there
at the end wrong tho, its been a long time since I looked at it.
Incidentally, I once calculated that 20 some digits of precision would
allow you to determine the circumfrence of a circle approximately
the diameter of the solar system to within about half the diameter of
a proton.

>It is completely uneccessary to know pi to the hundreds of digits unless
>you are calculating the size of God's bowling ball that he uses every Sat.
>night when he makes all that racket up there...


Perhaps, depends on how you define necessary and for what application
the number is to be used.  To people studing number theroy it can be
important when attempting to determin if Pi is actually infinite and non-
repeating.  To me it is simply a curiosity, about 6 years ago I could recite
about 40 digits of it from memory, made a good password for the computer
lap at school.

DK