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On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Robert Eno wrote:

>I was proud of the fact that I knew Pi to 10 digits. Obviously I am out of
>my league amongst the luminaries on this list. I should be sent back to the
>farm team.
>
>This reminds me of a sci fi series (can't remember which one) I saw many
>many years ago about how a crew of a spaceship overcame a rogue
>supercomputer by asking it to calculate the last digit in Pi. It fried the
>whole system.

Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 36:


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-- Richard Langley

>Robert
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Allen" 
>To: 
>Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 8:39 PM
>Subject: Re: Need formulas for arcsin and arctan
>
>
>> On 27 Mar 2006, at 5:57 PM, Herbert Prinz wrote:
>>
>>> I quickly checked this in my head. Shouln't the last digit be a 9 ?
>>
>> Ha!
>>
>> Sorry that I did not see Richard Langley's response before my
>> duplicate posting but we have both validated the Windows calculator.
>>
>> When I was about 14 years old I memorized Pi to 50 decimal places.  I
>> can still remember it to 35 digits.  I bet a few of the others on
>> this list have done similarly crazy things.
>>
>> I guess numbers are our addiction.
>>
>> Dan
>


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