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From: alexc@dartvax.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Good approximation for pi
Message-ID: <2279@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 09:23:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  8 09:23:30 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 06:55:28 EDT
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What I and many others used as a good approximation for pi was the mark near
the middle of my K+E slide rule (alas, broken now, and unreplaceable).  This
made pi a handy constant.  The number of seconds in a year, for example, is
roughly pi*10^7.

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