Stewart B. Lone on 15 Mar 2005 03:28:15 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] happy pi day


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eric@lucii.org wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:37:32PM -0500, Stewart B. Lone wrote:
> 
>>M.Simons wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Brian Epstein wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
>>>>I just shouted Happy Pi Day at work and nobody got it. :(
>>>
>>>
>>>you need to wait ten years.
>>>
>>>so it can be 3.14 15 at 9:26 and 54 seconds.
>>>
>>
>>That would be 53 seconds. Reference my email address or Google it.
> 
>  
> Well, I'd say 54 too - given that:  3.141 592 653 59
>                 would round up to:  3.141 592 654
>                                                 ^
> 
> Depends on if you're rounding or truncating :-D
> 
> Eric

Dont mean to be to rigid, but in any table that I ever looked up,
the 9th digit after the point is a 3. No rounding, no truncating.
I suppose I would compromise on 53.6 seconds
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