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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.

Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Allen" 
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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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