I am all in favor of the re-engineered, forward thinking, new paradigm for a right-sized value of Pi. That is really thinking outside the box, and presents the opportunity for a win-win situation by leveraging our synchronicities in a cross-cultural fashion. Now, if someone can just find where I left my radius-stretcher....
George McKinney
Steve....
I was in the midst of researching the idea of using 3 for pi (what a great idea!), but Chris has beat me to it....by using a very authoritive reference... I might add. (Chris may need to explain to the rest of us about General Sedgwick's quote at the bottom of his posts....)
Jack
>"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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