Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!dartvax!alexc 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 Article-I.D.: dartvax.2279 Posted: Wed Aug 8 09:23:30 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 06:55:28 EDT Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 6 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. "A spaceman's slipstick is as much a part of his uniform as his blaster..."