[OT] Re: Coding style digression

Andre Costa brblueser at uol.com.br
Fri Jun 14 15:46:16 EDT 2002


On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:13:37 -0400
"Brian Bruns" <camber at ais.org> wrote:

> Let me explain...The Alabama state senate a few years ago passed a law
> that pi was equal to exactly 3 because of a passage in the bible about
> something being 30 cubits around and 10 cubits wide and a perfect
> circle. Needless to say Alabama was the butt of a great many jokes among
> engineering and mathmatics circles (pun not intended ;-)

You've *GOT TO* be kidding!! 8)

... maybe next thing will be banning irrational numbers because they have
too many decimal places ;)

Best,

Andre



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