On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 17:13 +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: > You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: > http://www.correctpi.com/ I was always under the impression that pi was merely the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, something that's easy enough to prove empirically (measure the two, and do the maths). What you do with pi after that, such as calculating areas or volumes, is entirely another matter. Whatever you think about what the numerical of pi should be, it's interesting how pi is used in all sorts of things that you wouldn't necessarily relate to circles (such as electronics formulae), and the accepted 3.14... value works properly. Of course, if you believed it shouldn't be 3.14, you could argue that pi shouldn't have been used, but pi *and* a corrective factor, that happened to equal 3.14. But that would seem just a bit too much of trying to hard to justify a false belief. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
