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Re: pi envy

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From: SRS Consultant
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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From: srscnslt@telesciences.com (SRS Consultant)
Subject: Re: pi envy
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