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From: John Cartmell
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:00

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In article <AF5DA45C96685884D@sofluc.demon.co.uk>, Jonathan Cunningham
<URL:mailto:jlc@sofluc.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In article <5gmqsn$bs8@milo.vcn.bc.ca>,
> mgibson@vcn.bc.ca (Mark Gibson) wrote:
> 
> >Martin Ward (martin@ward-hull.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> >: Pi day
> >: 
> >: 
> (snip)
> >
> >3.14159265379 is a closer approximation to pi that I usually use. But that
> 
> Since I haven't seen anyone else say it yet, if you are going to use a 12
> digit approximation, how about using 3.14159265359 which is an even better
> approximation than the one you use :-).
> 
> I find "3" is accurate enough for many purposes, though.

Quite true.  Making sausage rolls the pastry needs to be three widths
of sausage and a bit.  The hardest thing to teach is when an
approximation is appropriate.

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From: John Cartmell <john@cartmell.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Pi day
Date: 1997/03/26
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