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In article <adinkin-ya023180002603971430550001@news.usa1.com>, "Aaron J.
Dinkin" <adinkin@commschool.org> writes
>In article <1997032119070310741@isdn78.hrz.uni-siegen.de>,
>holger_s@studm.hrz.uni-siegen.de (Kuddel) wrote:
>
>>Martin Ward <martin@ward-hull.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Pi day
>>> 
>>> I saw a posting in one of the humour groups to the effect that 14 March
>>> is Pi Day because 3/14 was a good approximation to pi.  Someone had
>>> replied that 3/14 was closer to 0.2142857...
>>
>>Pi can be approximated by 22/7 (that's what the anciet Greeks did, when
>>they build wheels) So we 22nd of July should be the Pi day, shouldn't
>>it?
>
>This isn't just a humor group thing - Pi Day was actually observed in
>numerous elemantary schools.
>
>And it's 3.14, people. Not 3/14. And the 22d of July is 7/22.
>
>-Aaron J. Dinkin
>Dr. Whom

You missed the beginning of the thread.  The "someone" knew very well
that pi is close to 3.14, and why 14th March was proposed for "Pi Day",
it was a quip.

And 22nd July may be 7/22 if you are an American, but us Europeans
mostly write it the other way round.  I won't clog up the bandwidth by
re-posting my origin article so soon, but I will e-mail it to you.
-- 
Best wishes

Martin Ward

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