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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:15:44 -0500
- From: Jason Paul Togyer <jt3y+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: In search of e!!!
- In-Reply-To: <By69A2.GKF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- References: <19093.2b0c97f8@ecs.umass.edu> <1992Nov20.220338.609@bradford.ac.uk>
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- >John Mechalas writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.220338.609@bradford.ac.uk>
- D.G.Legros@bradford.ac.uk (DG LEGROS) writes:
- >>Brian J. Cail, University of Massachusetts (cail@ecs.umass.edu) wrote:
- >>: IN SEARCH of e!!!
- >>:
- >>: If anyone has or can generate a approximation of the number e
- (2.71828 . . .)
- >>: could you please e-mail me the output? I'd like an approximation to 50,000
- >>: decimal places to fit next to a print-out of Pi to the same decimal place.
- >>:
- >>: Bri
- >>: <Cail@ecs.umass.edu>
- >>:
- >>: -----
- >>: what would the world do without engineers?
- >>
- >>
- >>And why pray-tell is this in rec.humor, huh?
- >
- >Well...that fact that someone would want e or pi to 50,000 decimal places
- >*is* kind of humorous... ;)
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- Oh yeah? Well, I was able to calculate pi to 100,000 decimal places
- using my Vic-20 and an old tooth-brush, connected with half a pack of
- Wrigley's Doublemint....
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- Oh, sorry, wrong cascade... 8-)
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- --Jason Togyer
- Carnegie Institute of Technology
- Pittsburgh, Penn.
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- **"The moral of the story is: don't count your boobies before they've hatched."
- --James Thurber, 'THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN'
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