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Article #14701Re: pi envy
From: SRS Consultant
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:01
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:01
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In article <1992Dec15.000657.17089@walter.cray.com> jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll) writes: > >Somewhere between puberty and college, I memorized 26 places of pi. > >During my early years of collegiate culture shock, while I slowly >shed my rustic juvenile illusions, I often repeated those >digits silently to myself in the face of the repeated taunts and >mind games of the malicious Ivy League rejects so characteristic >of the Northwestern student body. > >I somehow managed to remain quite impressed with myself until I met >a nice Italian girl from Joliet who knew 50 places of pi. > >Life hasn't been the same since. Did you marry her or kill her? -- Mitch Gorman srscnslt@telesciences.com emrys@cellar.org "You can tell he's doing well by the look in inhuman eyes, Better not compromise - It won't be easy!"
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!telesci!srscnslt From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant) Subject: Re: pi envy Message-ID: <1992Dec18.160129.4223@telesciences.com> Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc. References: <of=9pqa00awIA1919N@andrew.cmu.edu> <1gj2r8INNr6k@chnews.intel.com> <1992Dec15.000657.17089@walter.cray.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:01:29 GMT Lines: 22