Roger wrote:

"Cliff" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:33:09 -0500, "Mecoman"





wrote:



Today, 3/14 is National Pi Day, celebrating the mathematical value that
proves that what goes around doesn't necessarily come around.

Math departments around the nation are celebrating by singing songs
dedicated to Pi, and by, you guessed it, eating pie.



National Pi day should be 14/3 surely, using 3/14 gives some staggeringly
wrong answers.




Umm, 14 (divided by) 3 is not real close, either, 4.666667

3.14 is obviously what somebody had in mind. That's only an approximation,
too, but it is as close as the calendar gets. We've already passed
3-14-1592,
about 100 years after Columbus sailed West.

Jon