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Re: [microsound] Pi Day calc
Did you notice that Albert Einstein was born on..... March 14th!?
(I dont think there's a direct connection between Einstein and Pi
but this still sounds funny to me :-)
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juan pablo di lelle | discreet
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Kim Cascone wrote:
> 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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