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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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