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Re: EDITORIAL: Californians say "Mass Transit" but still prefer to drive alone

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From: mike wills
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:24
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> If you feel compelled to quibble with that, you surely must be one of those
> nerds from high school, slide rule in pocket, sniggering "what a dork--he
> had the nerve to say that pi is 3.14. Everyone knows it's
> 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510!".
 
sorry- can't resist this one...  :)
It's not that either. it's the number you get when you divide the
length of a circle's circumference by the length of the circle's
diameter


mike- math grad studente
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From: mikewill@math.ucsb.edu (mike wills)
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Subject: Re: EDITORIAL:  Californians say "Mass Transit" but still prefer to  drive alone
Date: 23 Aug 2001 10:24:41 -0700
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