Don''t mess with Pi

From: <Hawco>
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 14:08:00 EST

Hey guys – just a comment from an avid Lurker who greatly appreciates the service Mr. Bowers is providing.

In the words of George Bush “don’t mess with Pi”, maybe it was Texas – hard to know with that guy :-).

Newbie’s don’t use 3 – Pi is approximately 3.14 or 3.1415926536…

Paul Hawco

Mechanical Engineer

Neill & Gunter (Nova Scotia) Limited

http://www.neillandgunter.com <http://www.neillandgunter.com>

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From: Christopher Wright [mailto:chrisw@skypoint.com] Sent: February 16, 2004 2:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [PipingDesign] Moderators Assigned Without Your Permission

>"Why cant we change Pi to three? The Pi button on my calculator has broken"
it's been done:

1st Kings 7:23: "He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it."
A circumference of 30 cubits and a diameter of 10 cubits makes pi = 3.

Thus proved by scripture, your calculator is no longer broken, rather it is now fixed having risen up and cast off the offending approximation in its righteous wrath. Amen and hallelujah.

Christopher Wright P.E.    |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
chrisw@skypoint.com        | this distance"   (last words of Gen.
___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)

http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Mon Feb 16 14:08:00 2004