[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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