[OT] Re: Coding style digression

Brian Bruns camber at ais.org
Fri Jun 14 15:39:44 EDT 2002



http://www.nmsr.org/alabama.htm

I rest my case ;-)

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Andre Costa wrote:

> 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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