Pi Day calc

[Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/15/03 8:53 AM, microsound-digest-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> what is up with this march 14th thing?  it's all wrong.  a common and
> better shorthand approximation for pi is 22/7.
> 
> 22/7 = 3.14286
> 
> |pi - 22/7| = 0.00126
> |pi - 3.14| = 0.00159
> 
> see?  if I was choosing, pi day would be july 22.

3.14
3 months == March
14/100 ==  4.3/31 (March has 31 days)
Pi Day == March 4th - for at least 2/3 of the day ;)

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