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From: Dik T. Winter
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <333C2695.5661@caiw.nl> "R.W.Dirksen" <R.W.Dirksen@caiw.nl> writes:
 > >  > Speed of light: 3x10E8 m/s
...
 > > Are you sure?  I think the error in the speed of light and in the number
 > > of days in a year is much too large to warrant this assertion.
...
 > The speed of light is known very exact because it is a constant value.
 > They actually made it a definition:
 > 
 > 1 meter = the distance that light travels in 1/299792458 seconds
 > Therefore, the light speed c is defined as 299,792.458 km/s.

I know.  So the assumed speed of light had an error exceeding that for
pi.  And what is that to the discussion?
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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/29
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